Small Precautions

Global Business Network is hosting a talk next month on the topic of our new book, Deviant Globalization . Here's a precis of the conve...

There have been not a few commentators, from the bleeding hearts on the liberal left to the usual suspects on the neocon right , who have be...

No just today's tragedy, but also warning about the warming future...

Critical to any effective strategy (corporate or military) is to be judicious about where to play. As a general rule, one shouldn't pick...

Inspired by this post on the intellectual history of commentary on noir films (how is that for meta?), here are my ten+ favorite films noir...

Michael Anti explains how China's attitude toward development changed after 1989: It's a brief clip, but I I'd note two importan...

Max Weber, "Politics as a Vocation" : The early Christians knew full well the world is governed by demons and that he who lets him...

I've written and spoken a lot about deviant globalization , and the book is coming out in a few weeks. But I want to address an issu...

Over on Andrew Sullivan's blog, Chris Bodenner quotes a reader pointing out a crucial but poorly understood point about the notorious ...

This is how Deng rationalized the slaughter of protestors in Tiananmen in 1989: Imagine for a moment what could happen if China falls into ...

The Economist has a very cool interactive map of drug flows through Mexico:

So, we're all familiar with the concept of NGOs. But this concept has recently undergone a radiation event , and has spawned an increasi...

I realize it's stupid, and I shouldn't do it, but I just can't help myself. Jonah Goldberg (yeah, that's right, the chickenh...

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A neat tool from the Economist. The future is sooner than you think.

I mentioned the shifting shape of utopia in yesterday's post, using Google's nGram reader to track the rising fortunes of the idea ...

I'm finally setting down to read my friend (and Humanity colleague) Sam Moyn's wonderful new book The Last Utopia , on the rise of ...

I wrote last month about "rightwing productions of history" by non-academic historians. My central point was that the political r...

Der Spiegel provides a very German take on the Euro zone crisis that inadvertently is revealing of how the monetary crisis is ultimately a...