No Man Is an Island

No man is an island, entire of itself.-John Donne, poet (1572-1631)LAST month I celebrated the fortieth anniversary of my relationship with Stephanie, the woman who is now my wife.     

Youth Unemployment： An Impending Scourge on Society.

TODAY’S news media are full of tales about the state of the European economies, especially about the unsustainable levels of national debt funding the social programs of Greece, Italy, Spain and Ireland, amongst others. There are joyous reports of the negotiations and disagreements between the UK and the Eurozone countries, as the UK says: "The Eurozone must now resolve its own selfmade crisis. We’ll do our bit, but remember that we have our own problems in the UK." The reality is that the UK does     

A Question of Responsibility

A colleague recently suggested to me that Oriental medicine is largely preventative, while Western medicine is generally curative. I tested this thesis by visiting my local pharmacy in England, where there was no doubt that most of the products on sale were designed to fix your problems, rather than to stop them occurring in the first place.     

Counterterrorism On the Wrong Track

Insufficient knowledge about terrorists’ real objectives poses the central problem to U.S. antiterror efforts Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s     

Television and the Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Elections

We use the structure of media markets within states and across state boundaries to study the relationship between television and electoral competition. In particular, we compare incumbent vote margins in media markets where content originates in the same state as media consumers versus vote margins where content originates out of state. This contrast provides a clear test of whether or not television coverage correlates with the incumbency advantage. We study U.S. Senate and state gubernatorial races from the 1950s through the 1990s and find that the effect of TV is small, directionally indeterminate, and statistically insignificant.