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Sep 14, 2018States, Markets, and Dis-embedded IndividualsMoving beyond liberalism is not to discard some of liberalism’s main commitments, especially those deepest longings of the West—political li
Feb 26, 2018There Xi Goes...But if you want to get all structural-functional, Xi's power comes from his position as the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party in a
Feb 20, 2018Markets and States are ComplementsWe know that markets make countries freer, richer, and happier compared to totalitarian central planning, but we also know that the habit am
Jan 26, 2018Nation, State, and DemocracyThe society and, in a sense, the nation preceded the state without having to be created by it. In such a setting, political parties represen
Dec 6, 2017The Twitter PresidencyThe Twitter presidency leads us to neglect our principles for our grievances and to ignore the benefits and needs of our institutions for a
Dec 4, 2017Popular Rhetoric, Public Mood, and Presidential LeadershipGoverning by this means, if indeed it can be called governing, leads to constant instability as leaders compete with each other to tap the l
Nov 18, 2017Two Fallible Heads are Better Than OnePeople were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes. They will not flatter us in the
Nov 17, 2017A Liberal Political Order: Medicine Not Food“I [support democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people [embrace democracy] for the opposite reason. A great...
Nov 15, 2017Institutional Order and ChangeThe changes that occur are more likely to reflect local adaptation to local experience and thus be both relatively myopic and meandering, ra