Archive for Foreign Affairs

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 2: Major Challenges

by: Oliver DeMille March 10, 2010

Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide
This is part 2 of a 5-part article.
Read Part 1 Here
Consider the major problems we are facing.
Most are the natural results of too much reliance on institutional size and power and not enough initiative, innovation, and leadership from “little guys.”
Of course, the few who are entrepreneurs do an amazing [...]

Freedom Leadership: America’s Opportunity

by: Oliver DeMille January 27, 2010

Futurist John Naisbitt wrote in Mindset that success in the 21st Century will go to the opportunity leaders, not the problem solvers.
America hasn’t yet figured this out. The focus of our leaders — political, corporate, media — seems mostly on problems.
As Fareed Zakaria argues, the current debate in the United States is totally out of [...]

The New Global Aristocratic Class & the Decline of Free Enterprise

by: Oliver DeMille January 16, 2010

While regulation increases and economic freedom decreases in America, other nations are going the opposite direction.
In order to remain prosperous and strong, America must revive the principles of free enterprise that made her great.
Three New Hotspots
In a two-day span, the New York Times ran two articles — “The Tel Aviv Cluster” and “Is China the [...]

A Problem with Elephants: American Exeptionalism and the Political Right

by: Adam Hailstone August 6, 2009

After coming across a group of (older generation) Europeans skinny-dipping in a semi-secluded national park pond, my friend thought to himself, “That is why I love Americans.”
From our sense of modesty, to the democratic experiment resulting in the U.S. Constitution, all of us have our reasons for feeling patriotic. We have much in the United States, both [...]