At Miller-Mccune, I've been lucky, working with some of the world's leading thinkers. Here are a few of the essays they researched and wrote, and I merely edited.
Engineering of Nature
Why man's domestication of the Earth threatens the future of life, and how a new environmentalism, grounded in biodiversity, can save it. A multidisciplinary essay drawing on 15 years of research by Shahid Naeem, head of Columbia University's ecology, evolution and environmental biology department.The full essay.
Why Obama's most important effect on the legal system may involve not the Supreme Court, but the ideology, race and gender of his relatively anonymous appointees to the federal appellate courts. By Lee Epstein, the Henry Wade Rogers Professor at Northwestern University; Andrew D. Martin, a professor of law and political science at Washington University in St. Louis; and Christina L. Boyd, a Ph.D. student at Washington University in St. Louis. The full essay.
Public debate has been dominated by the belief that education builds human capital. But new research suggests that costly expansions of education may, in some cases, do little but sort people according to their native ability. By Norman H. Nie, director of the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society and co-founder of SPSS, the famed statistical and survey software company, and Saar D. Golde, a research fellow at the institute. The full essay.
How Europe's trade model could solve America's immigration problem. By Douglas Massey, the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and probably the world's leading expert on immigration patterns in the EU and U.S. The full essay.