Friday, January 19, 2018
Rule of Law in the E.U.: Implications for the Federal System
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For a federal system to be viable over the long term, a core of basic values must be shared even though one of the main functions of federa...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Decoupling Responsibility from Power: The Case of Transocean in the BP Disaster
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With much power comes implicit responsibility. Hence, on February 21, 2011, the world recoiled when Gaddafi violently turned on his own peo...
BP and MMS: A Case of Regulatory Capture
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In the U.S. Constitutional Convention, James Madison in particular stressed the nepharious quality of faction in relation to the public goo...
BP: Dividends to Stockholders Despite a Sordid Safety Record
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As BP was wrestling with stopping the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and cleaning up the oil, a controversy broke out between the company’s...
Are Americans Indifferent to Europe?
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Are Americans indifferent to what is happening in Europe unless there is some direct effect on them? If so, the news media would simply be ...
On U.S.Senators Being Elected
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According to David Firestone of The New York Times, a “surprising number” of the Tea Party members were calling for the repeal of the 17th ...
The BP Oil-Rig Explosion: Did the U.S. Government Over-Reach?
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A month into the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, some commentators began to wonder out loud whether the US Government ought to take ove...
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Church Scandals in a Secularizing World
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A religious institution can least afford scandal involving highly unethical and illegal activity when the world is secularizing; the headw...
Hierarchy Hampered Down in American Business
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Without going into either the labor or management camp, a person can viably critique the operation of hierarchy itself in business organiza...
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Executive Compensation (Part II): Paying Failure
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In late September 2011, Léo Apotheker was fired after 11 months as CEO at Hewlett-Packard. As a reward, he walked with $13.2 million in cas...
Executive Compensation (Part I): Systemic Risk
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In the wake of the financial crisis, according to the Huffington Post, “a number of the nation's largest banks were excused from the go...
The American City: A Police State in the Making
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Crime in 2017 was down the 30 largest cities in the U.S, but police levels remained robust. Specifically, less crime did not result in fewe...
A Megachurch Pastor and Sexual Assault: A Compromised Christian Leader
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“A Memphis megachurch pastor received standing ovation during a church service on Sunday after he admitted that he had engaged in a ‘sexual...
Thursday, January 4, 2018
CEO Pay: American and European Values
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To what extent do inequalities in wealth accrue based on structural elements, such as tax deductions that only wealthy people can use, as d...
Political Psychology: Syrian Human-Rights Abuses
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According to the New York Times, “masked gunmen severely beat Syria’s best-known political cartoonist,” Ali Farzat, on August 25, 2011. Th...
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