The Machiavellian Megillah
Historical literature and the politics of warning, from Machiavelli to Netanyahu.
On the Newsstand:Italy
Tea’d Off
Andrew Breitbart's May 2010 defense of the Tea Party in an exclusive interview with the HPR.
Greecing the Engine
Greece was not the first European country to obscure its debt in arcane derivative contracts.
Uncovering the Cracks
Conflict in Libya reveals flaws in the European Union's coordination capacity.
Online Privacy, Google and Facebook
Google’s court case in Italy is a big deal. As everyone is saying, if Google can be held accountable for the content it syndicates on its site, that would change the way that information flows through the internet forever. It could close the whole thing down. I thought I’d take this opportunity to throw out some loosely connected ideas on ... Read More
Conservative Revolutionaries
How the European right wing have become unlikely innovators in the worldwide financial crisis The economic crisis the world is currently experiencing has been the worst since the Great Depression. In such a period, nothing could be easier than pointing out market failures and the inefficiencies of deregulated capitalism. Indeed, it should be the perfect setting for an increase in ... Read More
A Historical Perspective on the 2008 Election
I was recently reading the Harvard Independent (a mistake, I know), and one of the writers had a piece discussing two widely-read articles over the summer trashing students from Harvard and other Ivy League universities. I skimmed through most of it, and what really struck me was a passage mentioning Harvard students’ homogenized, unfailingly reasoned and moderate political positions. It ... Read More
Turkey’s Europeness
I was looking at the Times today and happened upon this article on the latest development in Turkey, a judge banned an openly Islamic candidate from running. Well, what really amused me and got me thinking was that Turkish news was obviously filed in the World section, and also, if you look at the top of the article, in the ... Read More
