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Obama, the Optimist on Trade

Today’s Financial Times offers commentary by Susan Aaronson, a scholar who analyzes the murky relationships between trade and human rights. In it she poses the question: if both candidates are pro-trade,...

Susan Aaronson | 22 Jul 2008

Cat Urine or Black-Currant Buds?

Joshua M. Bernstein of Gourmet recently did a Q&A with Charles Bamforth, touching on something that I find to be among the “funny-because-it’s-true” characteristics of wine and beer. JMB:...

22 Jul 2008

Darwin Letter Friday

This week: Stinky, stinky, 12-year-old Darwin Charles Darwin, at the age of 12, wrote several letters into a ‘Memorandum book’ while on vacation from school. He was staying at his family home...

18 Jul 2008

Obama and the Third Bush Term — A Competent One

In recent days Barack Obama has sought to establish bluer water between himself and John McCain over Iraq. Did he succeed? Obama and McCain duel over foreign policy in this NY Times article Yes, he has...

Robert S. Singh, Timothy J. Lynch | 18 Jul 2008

Neil Kent’s Swedish History Smorgasboard

Carl von Linne, better known as Linnaeus. Look at those pointy shoes! Today: Merchant marine milk cows keep the corrupting Chinese commerce coming! As well, as a colonies on the North American mainland...

Neil Kent | 17 Jul 2008

A Legacy of Russophobia

GuideMoscow.com caught an earlier post of ours about David Foglesong’s book, and noted the cartoon. Foglesong writes of a legacy of American efforts to re-make Russia in its image, and his book includes...

17 Jul 2008

Darfur Justice: 5 Years Later

Still Overdue, Still Undone In our book, Darfur and the Crime of Genocide, we analyze evidence that goes well beyond the new charges filed against Sudanese President Al Bashir by the International Criminal...

John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond | 16 Jul 2008

Graph of Global Beer Sales

Yep. There it is. North American multinationals selling less and less beer, with Europe and the rest of the world stealing the share.  This comes from Teresa da Silva Lopes’ Global Brands, a handy...

16 Jul 2008

A Global Case of Beer

Or is it A Case of Global Beer? So InBev, the giant Belgian brewing conglomerate, is buying Anheuser Busch. What does that mean for both companies? It can be hard to fathom for the average beer drinker,...

Teresa da Silva Lopes | 15 Jul 2008

Omar Hassan al-Bashir Charged with Genocide

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor for the International Criminal Court has filed a request for an arrest warrant for President of Sudan Omar Hassan al-Bashir. From the New York Times: ‘Announcing the...

14 Jul 2008

Obama at the Gate

Should Barack Obama deliver a speech at Berlin’s iconic Branderburg Gate (that’s Brandenburger Tor auf deutsch)? Time Magazine identifies two moments in US Presidential history as iconic as...

14 Jul 2008

Darwin Letter Friday

You can do it, Chas! Charles Darwin wanted what many academics still strive for: to get published! It was difficult for other reasons, in his case. Murray, the publisher, might reject a paper that runs...

11 Jul 2008