I recently confessed that I’ve spent precious little time watching the marathon of Republican debates this campaign season. Maybe this makes me a bad citizen, but my tendencies toward psychological masochism have their limits. That said I have tried to keep … Continue reading
Tag Archives: UK
Plutocracy and Mechanisms of Government Capture
James Kurth has a great piece in The American Interest on the foreign policy of plutocratic states and the manner in which a plutocracy’s dominant economic-institutional form (industry vs. finance) affects the kinds of international regimes those states seek to implement. … Continue reading
Quick Hit: Sullivan on Catholicism in Britain
Though I’m sure plenty of readers have come across it, those who haven’t read through Andrew Sullivan’s reflections on Catholicism in Britain really should take a minute and do so. I’ve talked before about the process by which outsiders and … Continue reading