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...interview with Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said Wednesday that a preemptive strike against a nuclear armed Iran may be in America??s best interest...
Calling Dershowitz “one of America??s foremost legal minds”—and saying that he too would have been one had he ever applied to law school—Colbert began the interview by asking about the knife and “why it’s cutting...
...government is not passing judgment on what fields of study are best; it is simply responding to the realities of the modern economy and America??s widening income gap. Even a generation ago, someone with a high school diploma could find a good-paying job which placed him or her solidly in the middle class. These jobs, typically in manufacturing, are rapidly heading overseas to countries with lower costs. The comparative advantage of the U.S. economy is now in technology, and those without technology education have much more difficulty finding well-paying jobs as a result. A math...
...play the driving role in world affairs. For the entirety of modern history, European leaders were the ones that made the decisions that mattered. Great events hinged on the decisions and non-decisions of European kings, statesmen, premiers, generals, admirals, and revolutionaries. Even the Cold War, which saw America??s rise as a true superpower, hinged in great part on the actions of Europeans, and, moreover, its primary focus was central Europe, where Soviets and Americans alike stationed vast numbers of troops and war material...
...21st century, however, will not be a European century. It will likely—unless America??s ineptness in confronting many pressing systemic economic and political problems suddenly changes—be an Asian century. Regardless of how things precisely develop, this much is clear: Europe’s role over the next 100 years will be of secondary and rapidly diminishing importance...