I find myself greatly saddened by the news of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. I met her for the first time when we took a class together on Middle Eastern Politics at Harvard, while she was still an undergraduate. I saw her twice since then, both occasions on visits to Dehli in December 2003 and then again […]

I was in Warsaw, Poland, and Aarhus, Denmark last week on the heels of recent elections in both countries. The victory of Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform party over the incumbent Law and Justice party in the Polish case was genuinely uplifting.Poland has been ruled for the past two years by a pair of identical twins, […]

I was in Warsaw, Poland, and Aarhus, Denmark last week on the heels of recent elections in both countries. The victory of Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform party over the incumbent Law and Justice party in the Polish case was genuinely uplifting. Poland has been ruled for the past two years by a pair of identical […]

Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms aims to spoil our taste for Adam Smith with some warmed-over Malthus.

The birth of Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans.”

There are more ways than one to mismatch ends and means.

America has been trying to do too much with too little. It’s time to do less and succeed more.

A proposal for settling the Afghan-Pakistan border dispute, and closing down a key al-Qaeda sanctuary.

A worm’s-eye view of what went wrong with reconstruction and development in postwar Iraq.

For all human history, dying has been a social process as much as a biological one—until now?