“International law is a threat to democracy and to the hopes of democratic politics all over the world,” writes law professor Jed Rubenfeld. Here, his provocative, timely thesis.
Author: Jed Rubenfeld | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2003) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, International, Law | Legal
There is more than one way to get a rogue state to change its ways.
Author: Robeert S. Litwak | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy
Many of our worst fears about America’s voters are true.
Author: Larry M. Bartels | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Culture, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy
From afar, America’s presidential contests often look more like playground antics than a shining example of democracy. But looks can be deceiving.
Author: Denis MacShane | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, International, Politics & Public Policy
“Pollsters and pundits” has become a dismissive epithet in modern politics. Pollsters, at least, deserve much better.
Author: Scott Keeter | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy
Eating “green” is not so easy.
Authors: Christopher L. Weber, H. Scott Matthews | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Environment | Sustainability, Excerpts, Food
A prominent historian ponders the long-term legacy of the elusive Bush Doctrine.
Author: John Lewis Gaddis | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, History, Politics & Public Policy
You’ve heard it a million times: Nobody can beat the stock market, so just stash your investment dollars in index mutual funds and settle for “the average return.” Behind that nostrum is the so-called efficient market theory, which holds that stock prices already reflect all the available information about a company, making it impossible for anybody to get a leg up.
Efficient market theory no longer … [ Read more ]
Author: Robert A. Jaeger | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Finance | Investing
Congress’s popularity seems to depend less on public involvement in the political process than on the morality of the representatives.
Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2002) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy
The world needs international law. But does the United States?
Author: Anne-Marie Slaughter | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2003) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, International, Law | Legal
All evidence to the contrary, we continue to believe, deep in our hearts, that the Founders’ “We the People” meant all the people, not just the propertied white men.
Authors: Brooke Allen, Jill Lepore | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2012) | Subjects: America, Articles & Links, Excerpts, History, Politics & Public Policy
Positive thinking is indeed potent, but not always in the fashion that its advocates claim, Joanne V. Wood and two coauthors argue in Psychological Science (July). In a series of studies, they found that the effect of positive thinking depends on an individual’s self-esteem. Subjects with high self-esteem felt a bit better after repeating the statement “I’m a lovable person.” For subjects … [ Read more ]
Author: Joanne V. Wood | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Psychology | Behavior
The search is on for graceful strategies for exiting Iraq and Afghanistan. Apart from victory, history suggests, there are none.
Author: David M. Edelstein | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, Military | War | Peace
When Michael Barone began his career as a political observer, Los Angeles was like Des Moines by the sea and America was transfixed by the Vietnam war and the counterculture. Nobody saw the deeper forces that were beginning to transform the nation.
Author: Michael Barone | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Immigration, Politics & Public Policy
As scientists begin to bear down on the cognitive differences between reading online and off, they are discovering that the two activities are not the same at all.
Author: Rebecca J. Rosen | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, IT | Technology, Psychology | Behavior
Why is a donut shop pushing bananas? Perhaps profit margins are higher on the overpriced fruit. Or maybe the shop is attempting to proclaim its good corporate citizenship by providing an uncharacteristically nutritious snack. How you feel about this — whether you’re grateful to have been prompted to make a healthier choice or irritated that even a donut shop feels the need to try to … [ Read more ]
Authors: Cass Sunstein, Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business (Autumn2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior
Today’s economic and political upheavals reflect an ongoing misalignment between business and economies (on the one hand) and acceptable societal outcomes (on the other). There is still time to adjust, if we are willing to reexamine some long-held assumptions.
Authors: Blair Sheppard, Colm Kelly | Source: strategy+business (Autumn2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, History, International, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
Welcome the new world with open arms—and browsers.
Author: Tyler Cowen | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Information, Life & Society, Perspective, Productivity & Time Management, Thought | Inquiry
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THE SOURCE: “Immigration and the American Obesity Epidemic” by Lingxin Hao and Julie J. H. Kim, in International Migration Review, Summer 2009.
Excerpt:
The average immigrant is slimmer than the average native-born American and stays that way for some 10 years after coming to the United States.
The typical native-born American male, 5’8″ tall, weighs 187 pounds. This makes him officially seriously overweight, according to the Centers … [ Read more ]
Authors: Julie J. H. Kim, Lingxin Hao | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Health & Medicine, Immigration, International
Certain universal moral precepts may be biologically dictated as well. One such rule is at play in an ethical puzzle known as “the trolley problem.” Researchers pose the dilemma to subjects this way: A trolley barreling down a hill is headed straight for five people who have been tied to the tracks, but you can pull a switch to move the trolley onto a path … [ Read more ]
Author: Marc D. Hauser | Sources: Nature, The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn2009) | Note(s): Original Source: “The Possibility of Impossible Cultures” | Nature, July 9, 2009. | Subjects: Articles & Links, Culture, Sociology | Anthropology