Dictators and Dangerous Ideas takes aim at a wide range of authoritarian governments and religious bodies. After the apparent triumph of democratic capitalism with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, democratic capitalism is now floundering world-wide. Several new kinds of threats to it have arisen, both internally and externally, and there looms ahead of us a fresh struggle for our laws and liberties and a liberal international order. Paul champions and exercises freedom of expression, without fear or favour. All the pieces in this book, with the exception of five speeches printed here for the first time, were published in various newspapers and magazines over the past three years, since the publication of Opinions and Reflections. They are arranged in chronological rather than thematic order.