PARIS – The demise of the Roman Empire resulted from a combination of strategic overreach and excessive delegation of security responsibilit…
MILAN – In a recent set of studies, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff used a vast array of historical data to show that the accumulation of…
EDMONTON – Calm discussion of the environment nowadays is about as plausible as reasoned dialogue on witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. C…
OXFORD – Many of the recent tributes for Margaret Thatcher following her death celebrated her as a “transformational” leader who brought abo…
NEW YORK – Never in the history of written communication could 140 characters have the impact that they can have now. Two weeks ago, after g…
NEW YORK – Barring any unexpected new revelations, there is not much to be learned from the Tsarnaev brothers, better known as “the Boston b…
PRINCETON – Since the 2008 financial crisis, most industrial economies have avoided anything like the collapse that occurred during the Grea…
PARIS – Controversy is essential to the advancement of science. So the debunking of methodological flaws and a coding error in a paper by th…
BERKELEY – Over the last five years, the growth of health-care spending in the United States has slowed dramatically – to the lowest rate in…
NEW YORK – Let me posit a radical idea: The most critical threat facing the United States now and for the foreseeable future is not a rising…