Column on naval history posted on Stars and Stripes
Stars and Stripes features my Bloomberg column on US naval policy in today’s top news stories. Read the story.
Sep 4
Business New Europe compares European crisis to AFGD
A column in Business New Europe compares the contemporary European crisis with America’s First Great Depression. “What proves particularly interesting about 1837-1845 is the comparisons that can be made between the political, economic and market thinking in a US that was roughly 60 years old, and the roughly 60-year old EU. ” Read the column: “Merkel, Draghi and 1837”
Bloomberg publishes column on America’s “ghost navy”
Bloomberg’s Echoes blog has published my short piece on US naval policy after the War of 1812 — including the construction of a “ghost fleet” of major ships. Read the column. It draws on America’s First Great Depression. Story also picked up on gCaptain and History News Network. Image on right: a stereographic photo of the USS New Orleans, taken in the 1870s. 
Its keel was laid at Sackets Harbor NY in 1815. Had it been finished, it would have been one of the largest warships in the US Navy, and perhaps the world.
September newsletter for Governance available
The September newsletter for Governance is available here.
Radio Free Europe column discusses WikiLeaks article
Luke Allnut discusses my recent article on WikiLeaks in today’s column on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Also related pieces from Brazil’s Exame, South Africa’s Legal Brief Today, and DemocraticUnderground.com.
ARPA publishes review of America’s First Great Depression
The American Review of Public Administration has just published a review of America’s First Great Depression. The book “shows the extent to which economic crisis can ripple out into something far larger,” says Jos Raadschelders. Access the review.
Talk at Harvard Book Store on September 14
I’ll be giving a talk about America’s First Great Depression at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge MA on September 14. Details here.
Los Angeles Times publishes oped on US postal service
The Los Angeles Times has published my oped on the troubles of the US Postal Service in the 1840s. Read the oped. This piece is drawn from America’s First Great Depression. Also on History News Network.
Public Administration Review publishes article on Occupy movement
Public Administration Review has just published my article on the Occupy movement online. It will appear in the September/October print issue of the journal. This is a review of several books about the movement published earlier in 2012. The article is open access until December.
Failure Magazine interview about America’s First Great Depression
Jason Zasky of Failure Magazine interviewed me last week about America’s First Great Depression. Read the interview. And there’s a Washington Post story about Failure Magazine itself here.
