ILF POST

By Charles Lindblom To whom do we owe democracy? To no one, for, strictly speaking, it has not yet arrived. Well, then, to whom do we owe such incomplete democracy as we have in fact achieved? I’ll nominate the English merchants of the 17th and 18th centuries–we now call them businessmen (few women then [...]

By Nicholas Johnson To claim that “Spending money to further political views is freedom of expression, pure and simple,” states both too much and too little.
My commitment to the First Amendment began with a clerkship to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, and only intensified since. But the more one [...]

By Douglass Carmichael Leo Marx in his still extraordinary gift, his 1965 book, The Machine in the Garden: technology and the pastoral ideal in America , helped lay out the psychological and cultural issues as reflected in American literature read deeply.. William Cronon’s Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology [...]

By Harlan Cleveland The clumsy unilateralism of the Bush administration has had a curious side-effect: It has enhanced the popularity — both at home and abroad — of building coalitions.
Since our embarrassingly unilateral war in Vietnam, Americans seem to want to act in international affairs with credible partners. That’s why NATO [...]

By Douglass Carmichael So we are writing in difficult times. Each day it seems we are closer to ME chaos, destructive economic ripple effects, migration woes, and a total failure of governance. Lovelock says that the global warming is enough out of control that we must anticipate the tropical regions becoming uninhabitable [...]