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“… I’m afraid there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that Africa will make it. I know because I served in Nigeria. It’s their culture, you know [emphasis added]. It will not allow them...
In The King Can Do No Wrong: Blame Games and Power Sharing in Authoritarian Regimes, I ask why some dictators are better than others at avoiding blame for their countries’ problems. Dictators are powerful...
Dread Danger: Combat and Courage in the American Civil War originated with my long-time interest in an anti-heroic, non-triumphant approach to war. Since graduate school, I have been drawn to trying to...
The ability to sense and manipulate the body at the level of individual cells has long been a vision for the future of medicine, as well as a staple of science fiction. When it is finally realized, this...
Politicians frequently derail peace efforts by prioritizing short-term political gains over long-term stability. Take the example of Nicaragua, where during the Cold War the United States propped up the...
Palestinians are faking their injuries. The October 7th attack was an “inside job.” Ukraine is full of secret Western chemical weapons labs. Misinformation narratives in situations of war and conflict...
It’s 4pm on a Friday. The phones are ringing. ‘Somebody must do something!’ ‘The situation is out of control’. ‘Someone will get hurt’! ‘If something doesn’t happen soon, we will have...
A foundational objective of the Constitution of the United States is to “promote the general Welfare.” However, the Constitution does not define “general Welfare.” The Constitutional premise that...
Have you ever felt like an imposter in your own profession? As a non-native English-speaking teacher and researcher, I’ve spent years grappling with this feeling. It wasn’t until very recently that...
The Information Economy At Facebook’s initial public offering in 2012, Mark Zuckerberg shared a motto: “Move fast and break things.” Later abandoned by Facebook, the catchphrase prevails as a...
The General Theory of Relativity (GTR), enunciated just over a hundred years ago by Albert Einstein, remains to this day the best available description of gravitation, the feeblest out of the four fundamental...
What are norms, and why do they matter for international relations? How do they help to guide and constitute state behaviour at the international level, as well as behaviour by other actors like international...
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