Lowering the voting age: Enshrining rights without responsibilities Winston Shi May 25, 2015 2 Comments I don’t think giving the vote to 16-year-olds is a good thing, and many readers will likely agree. But the fact that many reasonable people in the UK support lowering the voting age should give us... Read More »
On helping our fellow human Mina Shah February 17, 2015 0 Comments Dogmatic nationalism might be a good thing in some situations, but when it privileges the marginal economic security of a nation over the lives of other people, we ought to reexamine our priorities. Read More »
European Modernity: Tragedy, then Farce James Bradbury February 13, 2014 0 Comments A prominent Stanford professor (whom I won’t name because he wasn’t speaking to be quoted) was only repeating the consensus among the political and economic elite when he told me after a talk on... Read More »
French vote a rejection of Sarkozy, panelists say Felix Boyeaux May 7, 2012 0 Comments François Hollande defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy to be elected as president of France on Sunday, an outcome predicted by panelists at a round table discussion about the French... Read More »
Hungarian Ambassador speaks on the Farm Janelle Wolak April 27, 2011 0 Comments György Szapáry, Hungarian ambassador to the United States, spoke yesterday to a small group of faculty and students in a roundtable discussion hosted by the Center of Russian, Eastern European and... Read More »
A Greek tragedy? Joshua Falk April 30, 2010 0 Comments Last week, amid financial turmoil, Greek Prime Minister George A. Pompandreou requested an international bailout to rescue his country’s faltering economy... Read More »
Lithuanian Prime Minister visits GSB Heming Yip February 3, 2010 0 Comments In a special guest lecture at the Graduate School of Business (GSB) yesterday morning, Prime Minister of Lithuania Andrius Kubilius provided an overview of the Northern European country and touted its... Read More »