Two books, one on law as culture and the other on Arabs, unexpectedly illuminate both subjects when read together.

Pollsters and pundits keep plumbing “why they hate us”, and keep missing the point.

Lewis Mumford had big ideas for little people.

Are Jews special, or do too many people just think they are?

Understanding how and why political institutions differ between the US and Latin America is, then, key to understanding the larger puzzle of the latter region’s lagging development.

New technology is a key to solving the energy problem, and we have a proven model for generating breakthrough technologies. So why don’t we use it?

Ultra-liberal Massachusetts now has “universal” health insurance, under Republican Governor Mitt Romney.

America needs to lead the world in leveraging the revised International Health Regulations to guard against pandemics.

Yemen is running out of oil and water, and a new front in the War on Terror may be emerging.

The victory of Darfurian rebel forces over the Sudanese army in a couple of engagements last week has led to the expulsion of UN representative Jan Pronk from Khartoum for writing about it on his blog. These battles should remind us that if the conflict in Darfur is genocide, it is also quite different from […]