John Edwards and the Impossible Ethical Standards
WASHINGTON – We know what happened regarding the disclosure of former Senator and former would be Democratic party nominee...
Category: Public Policy
America: Still Unserious about Energy
WASHINGTON – Amazingly enough, to this day, America does not have an energy policy even minimally related to the...
America the Christian
WASHINGTON – As the political season heats up in the United States, we are treated to yet another round...
Asia Rises, America Distracted
WASHINGTON – Five years into the invasion of Iraq, defined by its proponents as an essential component of the...
In America, Politics as Self-Renewal
WASHINGTON – The paradox of American politics is this odd mixture between pragmatism and grandiose wishful thinking. Hillary Clinton...
Europe and World Threats
WASHINGTON – “We must not –we cannot—become a two-tiered alliance of those willing to fight and those who are...
America Longing for Moses
WASHINGTON – Whatever the eventual outcome of the democratic party primaries, we have a Barack Obama phenomenon that is...
Economic Development Requires a State of Mind
WASHINGTON – Let’s start with a basic notion: economic development is a new phenomenon in human history. This makes...
Not Serious About Energy Independence
WASHINGTON – “The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long...
“The Decline of America” Revisited
WASHINGTON – Remember Yale historian Paul Kennedy and his 1987 tome on “The Rise and Fall of the Great...