Thursday, April 27, 2017

Stockholders Retain Wells Fargo’s Board: A Low Bar for Corporate Governance

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Corporate governance is supposed to hold management accountable. Slack in the mechanism enables not only a lack of managerial competence or...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Why Do Atrocities Occur in the Name of God?

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Why have atrocities been associated with religion—even having been committed under religious auspices? Four Crusades were fought, for examp...
Monday, April 24, 2017

On a New Era Dawning in the E.U. State of France

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With Emmanuel Macron finishing first on the first-round of voting for the head of state in the E.U. state of France, the media declared ...
Friday, April 21, 2017

On the Spread of Private Governments in a Democracy: Should Churches and Universities Have Their Own Police Forces?

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In mid-April, 2017, Alabama’s Senate approved a bill that would authorize Briarwood Presbyterian Church to create a police department. At t...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Transgender Europeans: Activated by Political-Correctness or Human Rights?

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The European Court of Human Rights issued a ruling on April 6, 2017 “in favor of three transgender people in France who had been barred fro...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Company Police-States: United Airlines Attacks a Passenger

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The passenger, a physician, was the victim of a disruptive and belligerent company manager and his henchmen. (Source: CNN) The e...
Saturday, April 8, 2017

The Strategic Use of Regulation in Government: A Proposal to Split-Up the Big Banks

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The strategic use of regulatory reform is no stranger to businesses—especially to the strongest both financially and, relatedly, politicall...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

International Response to a Chemical Attack in Syria: Beyond the U.N.

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In the wake of the chemical-weapons attack in Syria on March 4, 2017, Russia blocked a condemnation and investigation into the source by ve...
Monday, April 3, 2017

How to Craft a Non-Partisan Constitutional Court: The Case of the U.S. Senate Confirming Justices

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In interpreting a constitution, justice is best carried out when the justices are non-partisan rather than politically ideological. To be s...

On the Impact of the Mind’s Infallible Assumptions in Declarations of Religious Belief

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In religious affairs, we don’t typically notice the sheer declarativeness in the assertions of belief. In passing, we don’t isolate the und...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

A Legislature Court: A Conflict of Interest Averted in Venezuela

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Fundamentally, a court differs from a legislature, so it would be strange were a state’s supreme court to take it upon itself to act as the...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Life in Prison for Killing a Cow: Law and Religion in Gujarat

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At the end of March, 2017, the state of Gujarat in India extended the punishment for slaughtering cows from seven years in prison to lif...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

How to Regain Reputational Capital: The Case of Wells Fargo

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How does a firm rebound from the toll taken in reputational capital from a track-record of unethical practices? Paying $175 million to set...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Young Russians Protest Government Corruption

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Russia witnessed the largest anti-government protests in more than five years on March 26, 2017. At the urging of Aleksei Navalny, “tens of...

Making a Joke Out of Liberty: Unmasking a Political Travesty

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“Land of the free” is a ubiquitous expression that Americans use to describe the United States. Presumably those states esteem liberty as a...