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  • 5 Oct 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    More on Ideology and Leadership

    All leadership is ideological; all business is ideological. I’ve made this argument in an earlier blog, “The Myth of Pragmatic Leadership,” as well as in Discourse on Leadership: A Critical Analysis.  Over the weekend, this matter burst into the public spotlight with the revelation that one of the Presidential candidates claimed a nearly $1 billion […]

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  • 28 Sep 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    Let’s Not Waste a Great Opportunity

    With six weeks remaining until the U.S. Presidential Election, the race is locked in a virtual deadlock.  That fact, in and of itself, is pretty remarkable given that a woman is as likely to be the next president as a man.  I understand that readers in countries such as the UK and Germany will not find that […]

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  • 19 Sep 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    The Myth of Pragmatic Business Leadership

    In a just-published research piece, a group of scholars from Harvard and University College of London posed a significant challenge to the supposed benefits of “fact-based” reasoning.[1]  The way people respond to factual arguments – in this case, the researchers used scientifically-based findings concerning climate change – is predetermined by their previous beliefs.  Exposure to […]

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  • 24 Aug 2016
    Bert A. Spector

    The Year of Magical (Leadership) Thinking

    Many commentators were stunned when, in his acceptance speech at the Republican national convention, Donald Trump insisted that “I alone” can fix the “crisis’ that besets the United States.  Things “will all change when I take office.” Although it isn’t easy or comfortable, let’s put aside for a moment the specifics of his indictment of […]

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  • 28 Jun 2016
    Stephen M. Stahl

    Is Donald Trump a Psychopath?

    Renowned psychiatrist Stephen M. Stahl answers the question so many have been wondering.

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  • 12 May 2016
    Susan Rose-Ackerman, Bonnie J. Palifka

    Fighting institutionalized corruption through sophisticated political-economic reform

    With all eyes on the Anti-Corruption Summit in London this week, Susan Rose-Ackerman and Bonnie J. Palifka, the authors of Corruption and Government, Second Edition, highlight the relevance of their work to two recent scandals: Petrobras and the Panama Papers.

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  • 10 May 2016
    Damian Chalmers

    Crisis and Adjusting to European Diversity

    If European integration is to endure successfully, there will have to be a number of changes. Damian Chalmers explores these.

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  • 7 Mar 2016
    Ancient coinage

    Head or Tails? A look at the coinage of the Ancient World

    Explore our timeline of coinage from the Ancient World, as we mark the launch of our new series in collaboration with the American Numismatic Society

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