Even Jewish self-hatred, in contemporary America no less than in Weimar Germany, bears a characteristically Jewish form.

Universal Studios has refurbished and reissued some of its classic horror fare going back to the early 1930s. Some of this stuff turns out to be scarier than ever, for reasons you wouldn’t expect.

D ecember 2012 saw the passing of the great development economist, Albert O. Hirschman, at the age of 97. Development economists spend their time these days performing randomized controlled experiments, in which a particular intervention like co-payments for mosquito bed nets are introduced into one group of villages and not into another matched set. This […]

The contemporary vocabulary of “American Exceptionalism” comes to us courtesy of doctrinaire Communists and Catholics, from as recently as the 1930s. Really.

Filibusters, the foibles of the Senate, and the trials and tribulations of campaign finance reform.

An otherwise laudable attack on the mythology of locavore economics cooks its ingredients on too high a flame.

When Russia and China come up as subjects in the media and in political and academic discourse (as they frequently do), they are discussed in terms of bilateral relations, as a segue into a discussion of regional and global politics, as authoritarian threats to the West, or as examples of attempts at authoritarian modernization. Ever […]

Late last year, HSBC agreed to pay a record-breaking $1.9 billion fine to regulators following a report of the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that revealed serious anti-money laundering failures. But even with a whopping fine, the settlement HSBC has reached won’t be enough to stop banks from accepting dirty money. Senior individuals must […]

Is Japan drifting to the right? The ongoing dispute between China and Japan over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea (known in China as the Diaoyu Islands) has triggered a debate about the trajectory of Japanese politics, and the return to power of the old guard Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has further enlivened it. […]

Two decades ago, the Commandant of the Marine Corps declared that women serving in the infantry “would destroy the Marine Corps.” General Robert Barrow explained that, “in three wars—World War II, Korea and Vietnam—I found no place for women to be down in the ground combat element.” He cited the 1950 fighting retreat from the […]