From City Journal, Ibn Warraq on why the West is best: A response to Tariq Ramadan. The Toddler Economy: Why are CEOs and Wall Street financiers behaving so childishly? An excerpt from Fear of Enemies and Collective Action by Ioannis D. Evrigenis. Girls will be girls: What different visions of female childhood tell us about ourselves. An article on Obama, Clinton and the debate over how much Supreme Court decisions matter. Will the Democratic nomination be determined by the delegation from Puerto Rico? Michael Barone investigates. Our economic dominance may be threatened by China, India, and the European Union, but when it comes to the instruments of war, nobody else is even close. A review of Possessing the World: Taking the Measurement of Colonisation from the 18th to the 20th Century by Bouda

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