Over the past month I have been deeply engaged in conversations surrounding the book Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen, authored by the brilliant Peter Alexander Meyers, a political theorist and professor at the Sorbonne in Paris as well...
I just published a quick rant on Huffington Post after watching Joe Scarborough complain and moan about how the U.S. is going it alone on Afghanistan during his morning MSNBC show. It’s no wonder so many countries are getting into bed ...
If you can find 20 minutes to spare, Parag Khanna’s presentation at this year’s TED conference has some thought provoking moments. Among them: 2:45 – 6:00 – a discussion of the China-Mongolia-Russia space and how the de fac...
Yesterday the insider blog Caracas Chronicles ran a cool post about Eligio Cedeño, a once successful banker turned political prisoner whom (as you probably know) Bob represents. The article captures the sinister threat of legalistic machine ...
U.S. policy towards Hugo Chávez’s increasingly ugly antics in Venezuela has been one of failed reverse psychology – that the less attention is paid to him, the less reason he would have for misbehavior. This consideration of Cháv...
I’ve written in various places about the coup in Honduras, and stated in radio interviews that I support Washington’s stance and the efforts of Oscar Arias to bring resolution to the conflict and restore constitutional normality. ...
In the past we have blogged about the famed Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s dedication of his latest Symphony #4 to Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Tonight at 8PM at the Toronto Centre for the Arts this work will debut. For my fellow Canadia...
For years I have enjoyed Mark Helprin’s novels – “Winter’s Tale” is specifically quite good. What many may not have known is that Helprin is a pretty prolific and uncompromising political opinion writer – ...
CNN Money is running an interesting feature by David Goldman entitled “10 countries, 10 solutions” which details the particularities of the global economic crisis facing 10 key countries. In typical old-media fashion, the layout makes ...
Of all the coverage coming out of the recent judgment on the Bank of New York Mellon money laundering case, Fortune’s coverage appears to be the most thorough so far, not to mention that it immediately won me over with its headline: ...
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