international analysis and commentary

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Eric B. Schnurer

Eric B. Schnurer is president of Public Works LLC, a policy consulting firm, and a former policy advisor and speechwriter to several US presidential candidates. He has been teaching a course on “The Future of Government” at the University of Chicago.

The Tide Turns

Eric B. Schnurer
On the night of December 7, 1941 – Winston Churchill recorded the next day in his diary – he had “slept the sleep of the saved.”  With the United States’ entry into World War II now assured as the result of the Japanese attack on Pearl…

Do the right thing

Eric B. Schnurer
“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing”, Winston Churchill supposedly once remarked. “After they’ve tried all the other alternatives.” Whether Churchill ever in fact said this (the evidence is “no”), it is even more…