In the 1990s, I asked the CEO of ATT whether there is not a conflict of interest in him being chairman of the board tasked with holding the ...

In a republic, which is characterized by representative rather than direct democracy and includes checks on even the elected representatives...

In Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith foresees that capitalist industrialists could collude with government at the expense of labor. In On the G...

An organizational policy, whether in an educational, religious, or business organization, is not law . Accordingly, “police tactics” are ina...

As evinced by Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney likening a planned referendum on whether Alberta should vote to separate from the rest of ...

The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Marty Makary, “resigned” in May, 2026 even though the decision had been made by U.S. Health an...

Should the European Union pay prospective, or “candidate,” states to undergo legislative, rule-of-law reforms prior to accession even though...

With Russian troops having been in Ukraine for over four years by March, 2026, the case was indeed being made then for the E.U. enlarging as...

In an opinion submitted to the European Court of Justice, which tends to follow the legal opinions the 11 Advocates General, Tamara Capeta r...

Imagine a crowded, standing-room-only subway car during rush hour in Boston, Massachusetts. Even though many riders are standing, a seated p...

In the film,  Devil’s Advocate   (1997), human free-will plays a very important role. It has implications not only for whether humans tend t...

Systemic corruption means not only that a department or agency has an organizational culture that allows for and may even laud corruption, b...

Should instructors themselves lead righteous, moral lives if they are going to be allowed to teach college students? Does the character of a...

An important implication of the saying, a fish rots from the head down , is that it is important that corrupt heads be swiftly punished so u...

The film,  Don’t Look Up , is a most interesting film not only for how it relates science to political economy, but also in that images of w...

In the film, The Godfather, Part III (1990),   Cardinal Lamberto laments that Christianity, like water surrounding a stone that is in a wat...

Democracy, Plato and Aristotle both thought, is a governmental system that is most susceptible to the mob—meaning mob-rule. Accordingly, the...

As in the case of the Roman Empire, which internal corruption likely weakened and even destroyed centuries after that empire had been a rep...

During at least its first millennium, Christianity—with the notable exception of Clement of Alexandria—held that greed is tightly coupled to...

The corruption of an individual manager or non-supervisory employee, or even a government official can be distinguished between the collusio...