Commentary - America's Future

By Eric Cohen • May 17,2006

Enemy of the Future? The Economy of Genes, Biotechnology, and the Limits of Genes

It turns out the new economy is human after all. All signals on the horizon suggest that the American economy is heading for a serious slowdown, perhaps even a downturn....

By Elizabeth Arens • May 17,2006

David Brooks’s America: Strong, Capable, and Hard-working. But virtuous?

David Brooks was the quintessential journalist of 1990s America. As New Republic editor Peter Beinart has written, in those years “the hottest magazine writing was anthropological.” Armed with a sharp...

By Isaac Post • May 16,2006

Defining virtue

David Vogel’s The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility offers a concise and engaging portrait of how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) works in practice and...

By James Poulos • May 14,2006

Playing Risk with China

China's official debut returns us to the high-stakes game of great power politics, a lot like a game of Risk.

By Joanne McNeil • May 14,2006

The girl who cried rape

Do you know that guy from Modest Mouse? Yeah, the singer. Did you ever hear how he raped some chick a few years back? No? At the time I was...

By David Freddoso • May 14,2006

Taxes not hiked; Women, minorities hit hardest

“There is a time when a politician must put politics aside,” said the passionate Democratic Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, once a famous civil rights activist. “There is a time...