The past three decades were blissful for the India’s growth numbers, but not for its developmental needs. Despite of being a democracy with the multi-party system, and free elections, it is far behind the authoritarian styled China. The elections in India are on ‘one...
Reader Dan – On Water – Angry Bear
According to a University of Arizona researcher, “society is losing $2.4 billion per year because the Colorado River’s water” no longer flows all the way to the Gulf of California.
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We’re half way through the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP-28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and so it’s a convenient time to assess developments. In a new podcast, I engage in conversation...
Argentina has just elected Javier Milei, an exuberant, wild-haired economist with a pro-market agenda to transform the nation’s economy. After years of Peronist rule, Argentina is now home to its first libertarian head of state in modern history, a feat that many in the...
Stanley Fish argues that “academic freedom” is “an unfortunate phrase because those who invoke it usually emphasize the word “freedom” and “forget about its controlling and limiting adjective. `Academic’ tells you what the scope of the claimed freedom is: It is...
