Theories of Managerialism
October 1, 2021
Beth Simone Noveck— In recent decades, especially since Reagan and Thatcher, some scholars and practitioners have argued that the way to fix government is to copy the techniques of the… READ MORE
Category: Current Affairs
Paradoxes of Constitutional Processes
September 29, 2021
Donald L. Horowitz— Suppose you were advising a constitutional assembly chosen to produce a new constitution for a troubled country. Most constitutions are created because some trouble has occurred: the… READ MORE
The Problem of the Future
September 24, 2021
Sebastian Rosato— The problem of the future is one of both access and reliability. There is simply no way for states to access firsthand information about each other’s future intentions…. READ MORE
Constitutional Reform
September 22, 2021
Robinson Woodward-Burns— The federal framers signed the Constitution in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. The following July 4, Philadelphians celebrated the Constitution’s ratification with a mile-long “Grand Federal Procession,” led… READ MORE
Can We Learn from the Experiences of Foreign Countries?
September 21, 2021
Masaaki Shirakawa— Currently, overnight interbank interest rates in many developed economies are zero or slightly negative, and long-term interest rates are also extremely low. Did policymakers and economists expect it… READ MORE
A New Conservatism in a World after Liberalism
September 9, 2021
Matthew Rose— What comes after liberalism? We know what came before it: oppression, ignorance, violence, and superstition. The myth of our political origins is the story of how we learned… READ MORE
How Global Value Chains Distort Trade Data
September 7, 2021
Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis— The drive south across the Detroit River from the U.S. city of the same name to the Canadian city of Windsor only takes about… READ MORE
Work: Who Is In, Who Is Out, and Who Is In Between?
August 27, 2021
Jan Lucassen— One of the anomalies of our times is the urgent demand for laboring bodies, alongside the denial of their humanity. Think of severe immigration restrictions in Japan, Europe,… READ MORE
Words as Grain
August 16, 2021
Early this summer, we proudly released Duo Duo’s new collection of poems, Words as Grain. Lucas Klein, editor and translator of the career-spanning anthology, notes in his introduction that the… READ MORE
Work, Time, and Finance-Dominated Capitalism
August 10, 2021
Kathryn Tanner— The Protestant ethic was the spirit of industrial capitalism in its Fordist varieties, where investments sunk in expensive equipment dedicated to the production of one thing meant mass… READ MORE
From 9/11 to 9/11: The Widening of the Atlantic