Russia’s Rivalry with the West
November 11, 2017
Dimitar Bechev— Donald Trump came to office with the promise to clinch a deal with Vladimir Putin and end the stand-off with Russia inherited from the Obama administration. Nine months… READ MORE
Category: Current Affairs
How Terror Strikes at Language
November 4, 2017
Philippe-Joseph Salazar— Security agencies fail us each time a terror attack takes place –while their collective failure to act on intelligence is balanced by the personal bravery of citizens, first… READ MORE
Extremists Form Fellowships of Friends
October 29, 2017
Philippe-Joseph Salazar— One year ago an off-beat play about terrorism by Nobel-prize laureate Elfriede Jelinek premièred in Darmstadt, Germany, Wut (Rage) – at a time the country was straining both under… READ MORE
The future of Islamism
October 27, 2017
Tarek Osman— Arab Islamism has always tried to design the future in the image of the past. The Islamists have repeatedly tried to impose their own interpretations of certain episodes… READ MORE
Sense of righteousness
October 21, 2017
Robert A. Burt— The judicial task is not mechanistic but properly and necessarily involves judgment. In particular, judges must understand themselves as ultimately promoting equal deliberation among conflicting parties rather… READ MORE
Ep. 40 – The Art of the Iran Deal
October 19, 2017
Trita Parsi explains the Iran Deal: its strengths, weaknesses, and the ramifications of ending it. YaleUniversity · The Art of the Iran Deal
Taming the US Shadow Banks
October 18, 2017
Tamim Bayoumi— US financial reformers faced a fundamentally different issue from those in Europe. Banks in Europe were under a flawed single system. The issues in the United States, on… READ MORE
Expansionist Propaganda in World War I Germany
October 14, 2017
Tim Grady— Davis Trietsch and Julius Friedrich Lehmann made for an unlikely pair. Trietsch, a well-known German-Jewish statistician, journalist and sometime editor, spent many years living in New York, before… READ MORE
I infiltrated the alt-right. So what?
October 10, 2017
Philippe-Joseph Salazar— The New York Times recently reported on a young Swede who had “infiltrated” the alt-right, “My Year Inside the International Alt-Right”. Apart from sophomoric writing (“Jorjani talks for… READ MORE
The Politics of Civility: From George Washington to Donald Trump
October 9, 2017
Richard D. Brown & Richard L. Bushman— A century ago, a grandson and great-grandson of presidents, Henry Adams, observed, “the progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic