Wall Street Journal
The Science and Politics of Climate Change
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Mike Hulme has given us the most eloquently clear and reasonable outlook on the intersection of science, politics, economics, and the public that I have yet come across.
WSJ Five Best – Novels About Mental Disorders
Psychology historian Douwe Draaisma writes for the Wall Street Journal’s “Five Best” column on the best novels dealing with mental disorders. Draaisma’s “Disturbances of the Mind” is a sensitive, fascinating set of histories of a dozen disorders.
The Climate-Industrial Complex
The tight relationship between the groups echoes the relationship among weapons makers, researchers and the U.S. military during the Cold War. President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned about the might of the “military-industrial complex,” cautioning that “the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” He worried that “there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties.”
Chinese Banks’ Great Leap Backward
Factions and Finance in China author Victor Shih has an Op-Ed (below) in the Wall Street Journal today. Shih’s research examines the push-and-pull between communist party elites and banking practices. In light of global economic slowdown, things are getting interesting.
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Around the world, the banks we see today are very different from their former [...]
Timothy Lynch and Robert Singh in today’s Wall Street Journal
The authors of After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy are featured in June 2’s Wall Street Journal give us their take on George Bush and the fate of US Foreign Policy post election season.
Timothy Lynch
Robert Singh
Don’t Expect a Big Change in U.S. Foreign Policy
Want more George W. Bush foreign policy? [...]
