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Europe is a geographical expression - a peninsula of peninsulas on the western edge of the Eurasian landmass - but there has never been a settled definition of its physical limits. Rather, historians, writers and politicians have long referred to a set of shared histories - conquest by the Romans, Christianity, the Enlightenment...
Exactly 50 years ago, I arrived at Harvard and settled into Hurlbut Hall, then a newly converted freshman dorm. I returned this month as a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s (KSG) Institute of Politics (IOP). The changes are startling.
Sometime during the five hours he spent pinned in the wreckage of his car, grievously injured and delirious with pain, Robert Hughes was visited by Death. "He was sitting at a desk, like a banker. He made no gesture, but he opened his mouth and I looked right down his...
(2 of 2) Similar observations pile up - about the links between shopping and boredom, shopping and politics (the talk-show host acquires a political following). An incipient fascism sweeps the English motorways from one deracinated mall-town to another. If Kingdom Come has a flaw, it's dialogue that sounds...
Harvard and Shleifer have since settled, and the waters have calmed on the legal front. But this case has been one of simmering controversy that occasionally bubbles over. As such, the settlement may have ended one part of Shleifer’s story, but the whole ordeal might be far...