Rachel Laudan

I really want to write about woks.  But how can I contemplate the appearance of woks in the 3rd or 4th century AD in China when one of the burning issues of American policy is upon us.  Should the Secretary of Agriculture be re-named the Secretary of Food? Really, I have to pinch myself.  Nicholas [...]

Rajagopal Sukumar, who often comments on this blog, just posted on the recent failure of the Doha round on his own blog. It has prompted an informed and discussion. I hope to contribute something to the discussion in the next couple of days. In the meantime, if you, like me, find it awfully hard to [...]

I missed this op-ed in the New York Times by Dan Barber when it appeared on Sunday. Sunday was our day for the Mexico City to Guanajuato run and thus not a day for sitting at the computer perusing the papers. I’m glad I missed it because I’d have spent the whole day running through [...]