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The Dark Side of American Liberty
A British Social Anthropologist Assesses America Dr. Tristram Riley-Smith holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University. He works as a civil...
Corruption is Hardly a Third-World Phenomenon
Recent news that BHP Billiton and Hewlett Packard are now under serious investigation for bribery should serve as a reminder that corruption at the highest level...
Barack on the ball, and on the oil
This week’s big environmental news, namely that President Obama has authorized major offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska, may not be popular...
The Climate Is Getting Overheated
On Tuesday night I went to the Harvard Political Union’s discussion on climate change, which was centered around the question of what steps the University...
Harvard Model UN: Self-congratulations or a glimpse at how the world could be run?
Last weekend, Harvard’s Model United Nations conference for college students took place for the 56th time, drawing thousands of students from all over the world...
What Iran and America can(not) do
Last Wednesday, the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, at last treated Iran’s nuclear program with some of the honesty it deserves: he admitted...
Current Issue: Spring 2010
Religion in America
- Is Godless Great? A New Heyday for American Secularism
The American Way of Faith Compromise, innovation, and tradition
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