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Tax Your Sins, Experts Say
This chapter explains how sin taxes became a near-permanent strategy for governments to alter individual choice. It describes how sin taxes evolved...
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‘A Reckoning That Is Long Overdue’: Reconfiguring the Work of Progressive Sex Advice Post #MeToo
Sex advice has featured in popular media from the earliest periodicals to the newest digital forms. While the content has changed in line with social...
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Whither Canadian Climate Policy in the Trump Era?
The Canadian Government has outlined a national plan to meet its climate commitments under the International Paris Climate Accord. But implementing...
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The Political Backroom: William M. Chadbourne
A corporate lawyer committed to good government and social welfare, Chadbourne led Fiorello LaGuardia’s campaign for mayor of New York City in 1933,...
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That Tammany Boy: Henry Root Stern, Sr.
When Henry Root Stern met Theodore Roosevelt, he was introduced as that Tammany boy—a Democrat associated with the corrupt political machine. Despite...
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Commercial Interests in Outer Space
This chapter discusses the new and exciting era of commercial space efforts. The status of the American space program and where it is headed in the...
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Conclusion: Don’t Tax Sin, Forgive It
This chapter summarizes the evidence for sin taxes and concludes that it is, at best, weak. Far too often, experts and other paternalists make the...
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Fairweather Friends? Canada–United States Environmental Relations in the Days of Trump and the Era of Climate Change
The Trump administration has certainly marked a radical departure in some (though not all) of the policy orientations familiar to observers of the...
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Reminder of the Meta-Narratives
What is the value of talking about “the West”, “Islam” or the “Clash of Civilizations”? This speaking is part of a meta-narrative by which speakers...
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The Political Economy of Land and Agrarian Relations in Southeast Asia
This chapter discusses how agrarian relations within particular national contexts have been shaped by Southeast Asia’s wider, post-colonial political...
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Introduction: The Rise of Nativist Populism
The book offers a novel way of framing three waves of nativist populism in the post-war era, each examined in separate chapter. Each wave occurred in...
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Introduction
In the 1950s, the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association began an oral history project that interviewed family, friends, and contemporaries of the...
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“We’re Back”: Re-imagining Public Diplomacy in Canada
The central purpose of this chapter is to examine the claim that the Trudeau government has re-committed Canada to a broad and enduring strategy of...
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Sex, Love, Marriage, and Misogyny
As explained in Diane Ackerman’s 1994 book Natural History of Love, in most “post-Neolithic” (agricultural) societies, there is a clear link between...
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Becoming Black Men: Gender, Race, and the Neoliberal Trap of Aspirations
In this paper, I argue that interventions aimed at addressing the social and educational concerns of Black boys and young men tend to draw on...
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Afterlife
There are few contenders to a more enduring cultural afterlife than Florence Nightingale. The process of her commemoration began long before her...
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Taxing Alcohol
Alcohol is said to impose harms, including healthcare costs and impaired driving, that warrant an alcoholic beverage tax. However, research shows...
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Secondhand Memories: Murray T. Quigg
The Hagedorns interviewed Murray Quigg in an effort to learn more about his father Lemuel Quigg, a New York Republican and leading political...
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Taxing Marijuana
Some experts want cannabis, especially marijuana, prohibited while others want it legalized along with a marijuana tax to pay for its ostensible...
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The Second Wave: The Collapse of Communism and 9/11
This chapter examines the second wave of nativist populism in the post-war era, which grew out of resentment in Western Europe against workers from...