I received some unsurprisingly heated reactions to my op-ed in Saturday’s New York Times, which argued that the government should give up on prosecuting Guantanamo detainees and simply hold th
In a C-SPAN televised event at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, John Taylor and Charles Goodhart summarize their papers on the role of central banks, and Alice Rivlin and Chr
The Economist in its October 2-8 issue has a cover page with the title: “How India’s growth will outpace China’s”. One of the main reasons they give for this claim in their leader on this topic is that India is democratic while China is autocratic.
The political-economy blogosphere is replete with arguments that India’s economy will catch, and perhaps surpass, China because of India’s democratic political system. Who’s kidding who?
THE Obama administration wants to show that federal courts can handle trials of Guantánamo Bay detainees, and had therefore placed high hopes in the prosecution of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, accused in the 1998 bombings of American embassies in East Africa.
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