Featured on the New York Times' The Daily podcast and CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS What our failures during the pandemic cost us, and why we must do better
Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? "It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the...
Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress? Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified and legal recourse against threats posed by...
Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise--and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of constitutional...
In Covid鈥檚 Wake, Part I The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world鈥檚 population鈥�3.9 billion people鈥攚ere living under quarantine. Read More
In Covid鈥檚 Wake, Part II With In Covid鈥檚 Wake, Macedo and Lee offer the first comprehensive鈥攁nd candid鈥攑olitical assessment of how our institutions fared during the pandemic. They describe how, influenced by Wuhan鈥檚 lockdown, governments departed from their existing pandemic...Read More
