Knowledge is power said Elizabethan Francis Bacon. The father of empiricism, or modern science, put his faith in the observable rather than the spiritual. Studying nature was enough to glorify God, he said. Since then, mankind has amassed a store of information in subjects far ranging

Not too long ago the European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck  down the 15 year-old Safe Harbor Agreement between the European Union and the United States.   The decision didn’t make the headlines because it’s a subject that makes a person’s eyes glaze over.  Put simply, the c

We Americans like to differentiate our playbook from the one Russia and China uses. Their foreign policy we view as self-serving, while ours is designed to serve as a beacon for human decency across the globe. But, according to the writers Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore, a whistle