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The philosopher and the tycoon, how Eric Hoffer Predicted the last election

Published: 28 February 2017

In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Desautels Finance Professor Reuven Brenner examines the 1970 essay Whose Country Is America? by Eric Hoffer. Professor Brenner looks at how the...

A new magazine for US Conservatives

Published: 1 March 2017

An Asia Times piece quotes columnist David P. Goldman that the Trump administration rose from the ashes of the Republican and Democrat intellectual elites. 鈥淗e was a complete outsider,鈥 Goldman...

Professor Brenner marks launch of American Affairs

Published: 23 February 2017

Professor Reuven Brenner of the Desautels Faculty of Management was in Manhattan, NY on February 21 to mark the inauguration of American Affairs, a quarterly journal of public policy and political...

Macroeconomics, accountability and the 2008 financial crisis

Published: 24 February 2017

In a recent essay for the inaugural issue of American Affairs, Desautels Faculty of Management professor Reuven Brenner writes that it is time to drop the macroeconomic myths that have been...

An immigration amnesty could be a real problem-solver for the US

Published: 17 February 2017

It鈥檚 difficult to get a handle on how many illegal immigrants there are in the US, but the estimated number is around 12 million, with just over half being from Mexico. Yes, there is a criminal...

When statistics lie: politics and the US education system

Published: 10 February 2017

For 2014-15, the graduation rate from US high schools hit a record 83%. As far as statistics go, that鈥檚 one that anyone would love, but there鈥檚 more going on than you鈥檇 think 鈥 and, according to...

A Europe losing cohesion

Published: 4 June 2014

Ever since France's defeat in 1870-1 in the Franco-Prussian war, when military strength was identified with numerical superiority, demography, language and culture have become permanent parts of,...

2016 was a year of insanity. What鈥檚 next?

Published: 9 January 2017

The year 2016 started with an insane聽US decision concerning the Middle East and the world: signing a deal on January 16 with Iran鈥檚 mullahs (a deal whose details have not been revealed to these days).

Trump (or Asia) will make the Metropolitan Opera great again

Published: 12 December 2016

Though Broadway musicals (including Andrew Lloyd Webber and even the late Pavarotti鈥檚 occasional Atlantic City solo) do not compare in many minds to opera, Las Vegas has been discovering the long...

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