Saturday, February 9, 2019

Behind Cameron's Referendum on Britain's Secession from the E.U.

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Governors of other E.U. states reacted quickly to David Cameron’s announcement that if his party would be re-elected to lead the House of...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Second-Term Inaugural Addresses of American Presidents: Of Transformational or Static Leadership?

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According to a piece in the National Review, “George Washington might have had the right idea. Second inaugural addresses should be short a...

Increasing Income Inequality in the U.S.: Deregulation to Blame?

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Most Americans have no idea how unequal wealth as well as income is in the United States. This is the thesis of Les Leopold, who wrote Ho...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

A U.S. Senator Aiding a Contributor While Averting a "Fiscal Cliff": Turning a Crisis into an Opportunity

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The law passed by Congress on January 3, 2013 to avert the across-the-board tax increases and “sequester” (i.e., across-the-board budget ...

On the Impact of Political Rhetoric: From “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”

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Words  matter in politics. The side that can frame a question by definitively naming it in the public mind enjoys a subtle though often dec...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

An Empire's Economic Scale Demands a Market System: The Case of China

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A trend of increased-scale economies can be observed through history as city-states have given way to the increased military power of centr...
Monday, February 4, 2019

School Security: Turning Schools into Prisons and Violating Individual Rights?

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Certainly by 2019 a strong case could be made in virtually any of the U.S.'s member-states for investing more in the security particula...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

Facebook Defies Markets: No Accountability for Unethical Managements

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When Facebook announced a record $6.9 billion profit for the final quarter of 2018, up 61% from the last quarter of 2017, the company’s man...

The Right in European and American Politics: Disentangling Right from Right

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The far-right in Europe has been quite different than the right-wing in American politics. Putting aside the usual caricature of “people in...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

The Ministerial Exception: A Religious Right to Discriminate

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In early 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized, for the first time ever, a “ministerial exception” to employment discrimination laws, say...

Can an American Member-State Exit the Union?

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A war was fought over it. In early 2013, the White House made it explicit in replying to a petition. Yet still there was a sense among at l...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

North-Pole Air in Illinois: An Effect of Global Warming

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On January 30, 2019, Phoenix in Arizona was comfortably 90 degrees (F) warmer than it was in Northern Illinois. The respective highs predic...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

Is God the Invisible Hand?

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A Baylor University survey on religion and economics in 2011 revealed something that may be distinctly American, culturally speaking. The r...

Secession E.U.-Style: Beyond the Economic Implications

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Financial markets place bets on political outcomes, such as how or even whether the E.U. state of Britain would secede from the Union. Le...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

The 2012 U.S. Presidential Election: Fueled by Leadership or Money?

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The 2012 U.S. presidential election was the first in which neither of the major-party candidates participated in the campaign-matching s...