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Frenemies Behind the Veil of Ignorance
Despite being popularly positioned as leading advocates of opposing political philosophies, the signature works of public choice founder James Buchanan (with co-founder Gordon Tullock) and philosopher John Rawls share the same foundational approach. While Buchanan became more critical of Rawls’s work when A Theory of Justice finally appeared in 1971, his criticisms are more tempered than many readers would expect.…Read More
TR in the Arena
Theodore Roosevelt came of age and rose to prominence in the late 1800s and, arguably, launched what Time magazine publisher H. R. Luce would later call the “American Century.” As the Gilded Age faded, Roosevelt shaped America’s entry into world affairs and created the impetus for a robust America First foreign policy and hegemony in the Western Hemisphere. By sheer…Read More
Office Hours: The Worst Big-Money Group
Friends,Buckle up. Primary elections start in a few weeks. Primaries have become increasingly important because, as American politics has polarized, most Republican or Democratic candidates who prevail in the primaries will win the general elections — so primary elections are often where the action is. So, what determines who wins primaries? I’d like to think it’s the quality of the…Read More
Javier Pérez Sandoval Reveals Democracy’s Hidden Vulnerability: The Hollowing of the State
Javier Pérez Sandoval is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Democracy in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent article (coauthored with Andrés Mejía Acosta) is “Why Populists Hollow Out Their States.” The Democracy Paradox is made in partnership with the Kellogg Institute of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. By…Read More
Edsall: A ‘Project 2028’ for Democrats
New York Times essayist Thomas B. Edsall proposes a “Project 2028” for Democrats, which he describes as “an outline of items in a hypothetical 2028 Democratic Party platform designed to restore the party’s appeal to centrist working- and middle-class voters.” Edsall adds, “My suggestions are subject to challenge and dispute, and as usual, I have sought out comments from strategists…Read More
Was Jeffrey Epstein an Intelligence asset? Questioning the Russia narrative
The Russia Narrative Emerges This article does not assert verified intelligence affiliations, but examines competing narratives and questions why some… Source linkRead More
India trades in Russian oil for 7% reduction in US tariffs
US President Donald Trump announced the finalization of a trade deal with India on Monday, February 2, claiming India has agreed to eliminate all trade barriers on US products. Trump claimed that India has also agreed to stop buying Russian oil and instead will buy more American and “potentially” Venezuelan oil in the coming days. As per the deal, the…Read More
Cost of UK’s drug price with US will come out of NHS budget
Department of health, not Treasury, will foot the bill – with costs forecast to reach £9bnThe cost of the government’s drug pricing deal with the Trump administration will come out of the NHS budget instead of the Treasury’s and could eventually reach £9bn a year, campaigners fear.Patrick Vallance, the science minister, has confirmed that the costs – initially an extra…Read More
Trump’s Immediate Speculation on Shootings Bucks Presidential Norms
President Donald Trump wasted no time in responding to the deaths of two U.S. citizens this month during protests against an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Trump and other top administration officials made inaccurate or unsupported statements within hours of the incidents, a departure from how previous presidents responded in similar situations, experts told us. Hours after an Immigration and Customs…Read More
‘This Rogue Agency Should Not Receive a Single Penny,’ Progressives Say of ICE as Trump Signs Funding Bill
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a bill to end a brief government shutdown after the US House of Representatives narrowly passed the $1.2 trillion funding package.While the bill keeps most of the federal government funded until the end of September, lawmakers sidestepped the question of funding for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which Democrats have vowed to block…Read More