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Long after we’ve all forgotten what he actually did or did not do for General Motors, America will remember CEO Rick Wagoner for his injudicious use of executive privilege. Wagoner and his colleagues at Ford and Chrysler gained notoriety for flying in three separate private jets to...
First, the biggest obstacle to a broader audience is political scientists’ use of jargon. Mangled terms like “import-substituting industrialization” and “competitive authoritarianism” litter the typical textbook. In theory, these labels should make the discipline more precise, but...
Most academics are guilty of wordiness, but political scientists study one of the most important aspects of our lives: They, more than others, need to be relevant. The impulse to measure phenomena as closely as possible is respectable, but students of government should remember Harry Truman’s quip...
Remember, we, the investors, didn't know we were in feeder funds. We were in funds, be it pension funds or partnerships, that pooled monies to be invested in a primary investment fund that was managed by people we trusted, smart people that really had an angle on beating the...
Few of us ever remember that chunk of time between the joyous opening of the Harvard acceptance email and the awkward and uninhibited arrival of pre-frosh weekend. But Flyby can recall getting a certain uncomfortable congratulatory/inquisitive phone call one ripe April afternoon that went a little something like this...