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Sixty years ago this month, the first version of Donald Ray Cressey’s landmark treatise on embezzlement was published in Illinois, a state with a colourful history of theft,…
Karl Muth argues that the Arab Springs hold lessons for the debates over gun ownership that have recently animated American politics.
As a consistent advocate and supporter of…
I argue that there is a movement toward using social, scientific, military, and other public and private resources to advocate in favour of sameness. This is different from…
In the current round of the never-ending grind that is now international cricket, there are strong reminders that the game, like sport generally, carries strong social and…
There is a radically different context for international aid today than in the past – a context characterised by drastically fewer poor countries and an overwhelming concentration…
The Forbes 400 is a powerful thing. It is an annual list of the wealthiest Americans by net worth and carries in American culture far more weight than the Sunday Times…
It isn’t new news that America has consistently been unable to ratify UN treaties. Even UN treaties that would largely benefit the United States and American companies, even…
The military activities of the last forty years, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, have been disastrous for America and the United Kingdom. Most of all, they’ve been a testament…
Next week, on 12 December (or 12/12/12 for numerophiles), the European Parliament (EP) will hand its prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to two Iranians, jailed…
Two current sports stories constitute something of an allegory about why India continues to present a policy and strategy challenge for those countries which in recent years have…