After the American Century

Technology, politics and culture

June 30, 2012

Victory for a Compromise: Obama Care

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After the American Century It costs four times more more money to have a baby in the United States than it does in Germany or in Canad...
June 25, 2012

The Banality of Evil: What Americans now seem to accept

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After the American Century Fifty years ago Hannah Arendt compellingly argued that great evils are commonly not the work of sociopaths...
June 13, 2012

Election 2012: Causes of American Political Polarization

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After the American Century Jeb Bush has now said what every thoughtful commentator has been saying for some time: the Republican...
June 07, 2012

What Does the Wisconsin Recall Vote Mean?

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After the American Century The Democrats failed to recall the sitting governor in Wisconsin, but Obama remains more popular than Romney...
June 05, 2012

Which Underdog Will Lose the Election?

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After the American Century There may be an advantage to being a (slight) underdog in the American presidential election.  Both candidat...
May 28, 2012

Are Europe and Greek Debt like the Titanic and the Iceberg?

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After the American Century Imagine that Europe is a large ocean liner called the Titanic, and that it is sailing straight toward a ma...
May 12, 2012

Education Provides the Infrastructure of Tomorrow

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After the American Century               For decades, the United States had a Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and wh...
May 11, 2012

Election 2012: Romney the Bully? Gay Marriage and the Election

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After the American Century The Gay Marriage issue has turned into the worst sort of public relations for Romney, who now comes across i...
May 09, 2012

Danish and American Medical Systems, a Basic Comparison

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After the American Century  Americans often hear that the Obama medical plan is socialistic. It is not, as anyone living in France, G...
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David E. Nye
Odense, Denmark
Author or editor of more than 25 books, including 12 with The MIT Press, and more than 225 publications in all. Honors include the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 2005. Senior Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota. By-Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. Professor Emeritus SDU, Denmark. Knighted by the Queen of Denmark in 2014. A bibliography and index to publications is available for free download at https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/219592
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