American economic historian
Leon Aron of the American Enterprise Institute argues that the pandemic could prove dangerous to Russia’s strongman. The path of the coronavirus pandemic in Russia has been similar to that…
UNC history professor Peter Coclanis reviews for the News & Observer Joel Kotkin‘s recent book challenging popular assumptions about urban dwelling. At first blush, it seems difficult to get a…
Those who remember Peter Coclanis‘ 2009 presentation to the John Locke Foundation on Russia’s long-term challenges are unlikely to be surprised by Carol Matlack’s report from the latest issue of…
In this recent Wall Street Journal piece, UNC professor Peter Coclanis discusses the loco locavore climate around Chapel Hill. Big agra, as he terms it, has made food much less…
Anyone who remembers UNC professor Peter Coclanis‘ 2009 presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society on challenges facing the Russian society will have an easy time believing the details…
Fareed Zakaria argues in the latest TIME magazine that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s provocative action against his Ukrainian neighbors signifies Putin’s focus on Russia’s past. The crisis in Crimea reminds…
Both the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer published University of North Carolina historian Peter Coclanis’ positive review of John Locke Foundation President John Hood‘s new book, Our Best…
Reviewer Peter Coclanis of UNC-Chapel Hill has this to say in the Charlotte Observer about John Hood’s new book, Our Best Foot Forward: [W]hat Hood is offering is a thoughtful…
You might remember a 2009 Shaftesbury Society presentation from UNC-Chapel Hill historian Peter Coclanis, in which he oulined Russia?s debilitating demographic crisis. In the Carolina Journal Radio interview associated with…
In today’s Wall Street Journal, UNC history professor Peter Coclanis contributes a good piece entitled Haiti Needs to be Built, Not Rebuilt in which he makes the sound point that…
If you missed it Thursday afternoon, the lead Carolina Journal Online exclusive features David Bass’ report on Ruffin Poole’s first appearance in federal court on 51 corruption charges. This week’s…
North Carolina?s Supreme Court recently ruled that the state could not take gun ownership rights away from a particular nonviolent felon. Daren Bakst agrees with the ruling and says other…