Fleeing the fighting outside Goma, North Kivu province of Congo (Walter Astrada/AFP/Getty Images)

For decades, much of the Western world has gone about its affairs without giving much thought to Africa.
How many Americans know, much less care, that since 1988, wars and…

Canada’s Maclean’s magazine (involved in another controversial human rights case that I wrote about here and here) has published an extensive article detailing the “remarkably successful” campaign to make “defamation of religions” a violation of international law. (H/t: Volokh Conspiracy)

Led by the…

At 3:00PM this afternoon I participated in an editorial conference call with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad (former ambassador to Afghanistan and later Iraq). During the call, Ambassador Khalilzad addressed a broad range of topics, including repression in…

In what is, I guess, becoming a sort of recurring theme lately, I thought I’d point out perhaps the most potentially dangerous example of an attempt to censor what has until now been the freest medium for speech — the Internet.

Steve Boriss, of our own Washington…