by Henry Oliner | Oct 9, 2022 | Philosophy, Politics
From Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen interviews Walter Russell Mead Excerpt: COWEN: How would you change or improve the training that goes into America’s foreign policy elite? MEAD: Well, I would start by trying to draw people’s attention to that, over the last 40...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 27, 2018 | Politics, Progressivism
From Walter Russel Mead at The Wall Street Journal, The ‘Crisis of Democracy’ Is Overhyped But the failures of authoritarian states are often far graver than the problems that preoccupy the professional hand-wringers of the liberal West. There are no crises in the...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 25, 2014 | Foreign policy
From The American Interest, The Case for More Congress In American Foreign Policy, by Walter Russell Mead: Excerpt: At the same time, with our Libyan policy, like the country itself, in ruins, one has the sense that the Benghazi investigation missed the larger point....
by Henry Oliner | Jul 24, 2013 | Politics, Social
From Walter Russel Mead at The American Interest, Note to Paul Krugman: It Took More Than Markets to Ruin Detroit: Krugman is right that Detroit is essentially Ground Zero of the disruptive changes wrought by an economy in transition. But as this story and others like...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 1, 2012 | Business, Economics
Walter Russel mead writes in The American Interest, Beyond Blue 5: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, 2/20/12: Excerpts: Currently, the American legal and regulatory system is set up to bind as many people to employers as possible. The government wants you to be a wage slave and sets...
