Strange Conversations While In Africa Talking to strangers, you learn what they believe in LUSAKA (Zambia) – During business trips in far away places it is relatively easy to talk to strangers who...
Can We Find Decent People To Fix Our Democracies? Going for populists with easy answers is a bad idea WASHINGTON – Democracy and free markets anyone? By this I mean opting for a real republican government with fair...
An Academic Argues That We Need Socialist Policies in America Socialism is good, we have never really tried it WASHINGTON – In the course of a TV program focused on economic freedom, a leftist university professor was interviewed...
Why Are Americans In Love With Crazy Political Ideas? Trump and Sanders succeed because we no longer have any consensus about which policies improve the common good WASHINGTON – “I play to people’s fantasies. I call it truthful hyperbole”. This is what Donald Trump once said,...