Henry Farrell, an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, is a co-founder of the academic group blog Crooked Timber. He is finishing a book about the political economy of Italy.
How a central bank created to exist apart from politics got drawn into bitter political arguments.
The European Union exists in a no-man’s-land between democracy and technocracy.
Gangsters have guns and muscle, but a good writer always gets the last word.


