Self-Restraint in the Executive

March 17, 2017 · Abraham Lincoln, Table of Contents, Features

According to the popular-again Alexander Hamilton, “Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government." In light of this requirement and the failure of the Articles of Confederation to meet it, the authors of our Constitution took careful measures to create a…

Change Afoot in Ukraine

July 10, 2014 · Russia, EU, Revolution

I taught for a year at the Kiev-Mohyla University in 1993-94 and returned to Ukraine this June after an absence of twenty years. Things here have changed.