Far more encouraging is the treatment of democracy as a central—and explicit—goal for the new constitution. This would be a marked improvement. The real-life Framers did not establish what any of us ...

And yet we keep proclaiming how special we are. As Webb puts it, “Hamlet got one thing right: we’re a piece of work.” For example, hummingbirds can see colors that human beings are not even able to ...

Industrial policy has traditionally been conceived of as a strategic tool that nations use to gain “market share” in the context of international trade. Over the last five decades or so, the focus of ...