Confidence fairies and confidence tricks
When I hear very serious people talk about confidence I often smell a rat. It's such an amorphous thing and impossible to observe directly. Clearly...
The Iran nuclear deal: a new détente between the Shi’ites and the non-Muslims of the world?
The Iranian Revolution of the late 1970s meant a huge shift in Middle-East politics and the relation between Islam and the rest. Within a period...