Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

• I wrote about nineteen invited op-eds and magazine articles pointing out the flaws in
democracy. There wasn't the same kind of interest in 2014 or 2012 when I was writing about …

Beckley demonstrates that no country is poised to upend American primacy, not
economically, not militarily, and not technologically.... The evidence he assembles should be …

May you sell your spare kidney? May gay men pay surrogates to bear them children?
Should we allow betting markets on terrorist attacks and natural disasters? May spouses pay …

Early in the 1950s my parents tired of summer holidays mostly spent on chilly wind-swept
beaches and embarked, with hire car, tents, and four young children, on what was, in the …

ABSTRACT In Against Democracy, Jason Brennan argues that public ignorance
undermines the legitimacy of democracy because, to the extent that ignorant voters make …

America and other rich nations have a clear choice today. They can continue to ignore the
population problem and their own massive contributions to it. Then they will be trapped in a …

Since 2001, the United States has created or reorganized more than two counterterrorism
organizations for every apprehension it has made of Islamists apparently planning to commit …

Policing in America, Ninth Edition, provides a thorough analysis of the key issues in policing
today, and offers an issues-oriented discussion focusing on critical concerns such as …

The end of the Cold War led to a dramatic and fundamental change in the foreign policy of
the United States. In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign …