09. July 2016

Farhad Manjoo in his July 7, 2016 column in the New York Times (ow.ly/prsT100dEeu) laments the state of reason and science in the way Americans govern themselves. Although he doesn't state it as such, we do indeed govern ourselves by 18th-Century principles and institutions. Other nations, especially the European Community, have progressed way beyond what we do in America. However, they, too, have not come close to reaching their potential. What is needed is a new social ethos and set of public...

09. July 2016

David Brooks of the New York Times in his column of July 8, 2016 "The Power of Altruism" (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/opinion/the-power-of-altruism.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fdavid-brooks&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=0) suggests that it's time to upend classical economics and political science to build collective institutions that counter the logic of...