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For the Record: Iran: Deal with the Mother Lode
For the Record: Iran: Deal with the Mother Lode
Comments on Amitai Etzioni’s analysis summarized in “Iran: Deal with the Mother Lode”
By Paul Pillar
Happiness is the Wrong Metric
People are motivated not only by a quest for satisfaction but also by trying to live up to their sense of what is moral.
Humanity Would Be Better off Saving Earth, Rather Than Colonizing Mars
Recently, SpaceX held a top-secret “ Mar
China is Not the Soviet Union
In evaluating recent alarmed assessments of China’s ambitions, one must recall that for decades the American intelligence community, in particular the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), vastly exag
Don't Vent, Win
In June, after the Trump administration tore infants out of the embrace of their mothers and detained them separately, a handful of Americans expressed their outrage in ways that many deemed uncivi
China and the Lessons of Modern Surveillance Technology
China is taking the lead in drawing on recent technological developments to vastly enhance its capacities to keep its people under surveillance.
Immigration: Europe's Normative Challenge
To absorb millions of immigrants into European societies requires a normative integration.
The Limits of Transparency
Transparency is viewed as a self-evident good in Western society.
Theoretical Implications of “High Rent”
Evidence indicates that when a party pays lobbyists to secure special benefits for that party, in terms of resource allocations by the government, that party gains a very high return on its outlays
Can We Save Privacy by Treating Info Like Private Property?
Amitai Etzioni
Can We Save Privacy by Treating Info Like Private Property?
Theoretical Implications of “High Rent”
Evidence indicates that when a party pays lobbyists to secure special benefits for that party, in terms of resource allocations by the government, that party gains a very high return on its outlays
The Moral Wrestler: Ignored by Maslow
One of Maslow’s great contributions is that he assumes that people are not merely economic creators who seek to maximize their happiness by consuming goods.
For the record: US democratization drives are failure-prone
Etzioni specified the conditions that successful democratization requires and showed that these conditions are not extant in the Middle East and many other parts of the world.
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