42 Posts found for Source: The Wilson Quarterly

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

Why is corruption so pervasive around the globe?

Author: Jakob Svensson | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Winter2006) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Law | Legal, 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

As the influence of traditional religions wanes, Europeans feel a yearning for spiritual forces they do not control.

Author: Roger Scruton | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Winter2003) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, International, Religion

The great triumphs of modern science, from splitting the atom to unraveling the human genome, increasingly raise a troubling question: Is the pursuit of knowledge always a good thing? A long tradition in Western thought – largely ignored even by today’s critics of science – says it is not.

Author: Mark Lilla | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Summer2001) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Intelligence | Knowledge, IT | Technology, Philosophy

Third World poverty may often be a contributing factor in terrorism, but it is neither a necessary nor a sufficient cause, argues Richard K. Betts, director of the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University […] “Economic development in an area where the political and religious impulses remain unresolved could serve to improve the resource base for terrorism rather than undercut it.”

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Terrorism is … [ Read more ]

Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Summer2002) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, International, Terrorism

The notion that the ability to remember new information often depends on prior knowledge of the topic is well known. Now, researchers in Edinburgh, Tokyo, and Trondheim, Norway, have conducted a study that helps answer one of the most important questions in neuroscience: Why is it that the more people know, the more they can learn?

Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Summer2007) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Math & Science

A veteran American negotiator derives seven rules of the road from his decades of experience in Arab-Israeli peace talks.

Author: Aaron David Miller | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Spring2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, International, Politics & Public Policy

Bad schools are not going to sink the American economy. Despite what the headlines say, U.S. students fare well in international comparisons. It’s the schools serving the poor that demand our attention.

Author: Jay Mathews | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Spring2008) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Education | Scholarship, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy

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

There are five maxims the federal government can follow to regain the public confidence it has lost over the past four decades.

Author: William A. Galston | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Winter2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy

America’s national security structure is designed to confront the challenges of the last century rather than our own.

Author: John A. Nagl | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Winter2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, Military | War | Peace

Tom Vanderbilt on the future of the auto industry (a review of Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability by Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon, Oxford University Press, 304 pp, 2010).

Author: Tom Vanderbilt | Source: The Wilson Quarterly (Spring2009) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Environment | Sustainability, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy