Modern economic life crosses national boundaries to form a web of intricate association that retards aggressive and regressive nationalism. Trade, investment, enterprise, technology, communications, and travel are today relentlessly transnational. Yet this same globalism undermines the capacity of the nation-state to stabilize its economy. From this paradox comes the first of the dialectics of our […]
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Posted inCivil Rights in America
Orphans of Separatism: The Painful Politics of Transracial Adoption
Liberals’ misguided efforts to respect race may harm children — and deepen racial intolerance.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Talent and the Winner-Take-All Society
Rising inequality reflects the growing importance of winner-take-all markets.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Seductions of Sim: Policy as a Simulation Game
For those who always thought public policy was a game anyone could play, it finally is. But beware of what the game assumes.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
What’s Trust Got to Do With It?
Everything. Cynicism is crippling our capacity to deal with public problems.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Pork and the Public Interest
How conservatives read their own cynicism into public life.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Happy Returns: How the Working Poor Got Tax Relief
Left and right agree on one way to spell relief: EITC. But how much relief?
Posted inFeatures
Wild Pitch
For baseball players and fans, winter is the “off-season.” But for team owners and their executives, it is the season for deal making. As most fans are looking back on another season of what might have been (except for New York Yankee fans, who get to savor another World Series victory), the deal makers are […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
Making the Poor Count
The poverty line came from a woman with a passion and a memory.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Predators’ Accomplice: How High Theory Abetted Speculative Excess
The prosecutor builds a case against academic apologists for the casino economy.
