The current debate on the future of healthcare in the US centers on three main issues --- accessibility, quality of medical care, and affordability. With the gradual but steady disappearance of private insurance coverage, and the rising number of the uninsured, the general consensus is a...

It is the irony of human nature, and indeed the incentive mechanism inherent in social institutions, that some societies less endowed by nature strive harder to improve their collective lot, and in many instances succeed in achieving their development objectives more frequently than their...

In the book, "The Paradox of Plenty," Terry Lynn Karl sought to solve the perplexing puzzle of why countries that experienced unprecedented transfer of wealth from the oil booms of the 1970s and 1980s, without exception, displayed similar economic development outcomes in spite of having very...

The Shoah took Lanzmann approximately eleven years to complete; and when it was released in 1985, the events addressed in the film was more than forty-two years old, and the interviewees had to grapple with the task of recalling both deeply suppressed and readily retrievable memory formed some...

For a nation-state to self-sustain and endure, it must have the capacity to inspire loyalty and pride amongst its citizenry; but most importantly, it must meet the basic needs of its population and engender a sense of collective ownership. This latter requirement fosters ready identification...