London is an odd place for an American to spend the Fourth of July, but the way the schedule worked out this summer, this happened to be the best time for me to make a quick trip.  I’ve been putting some ideas together about Anglo-American relations, the decline and fall of great powers and the […]

I am spending about a week in London and it has been harder than usual to find time to post.  That will change shortly; I look forward to getting back on track with the blog.  London is a city of bloggers: Pepys, Addison, Steele, Johnson — and it’s hard not to be inspired here.

To appreciate the tortured path of the efforts to control the power of money in American politics from the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act in 2002 to January’s Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which reversed much of that law and undermined a few others, we must first understand […]

While Europeans and Americans argue about who has the more attractive model, the rest of the world is increasingly being tempted by a third option.

The market democracies of the world, whether European or American, will remain the big kids on the block for the foreseeable future.

President Obama’s Science Envoy and a Nobel laureate in chemistry has an idea for restoring America’s image in the Middle East.

Perhaps the strangest thing about black America today is how little we talk about it.

What made U.S. banks take such disastrous risks? Not what we’ve been led to think.

Charles Hill’s Grand Strategy and Literature surprises and enthralls.

The Financial Secrecy Index is a new tool for ranking jurisdictions
according to the transparency of their financial markets.