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.

All Globalists Now

Eric B. Schnurer Nov 16, 2018

With an election climaxing in not just an uncommon rhetorical shrillness but also actual violence, Americans now recognize that we are engaged in a cold war that is turning increasingly hot between “globalists” and “nationalists.” Or, at…

Two Americas and the lost center

Eric B. Schnurer Sep 5, 2018

Both right and left in the United States (and, perhaps, worldwide) have moved further and further from the "center"

Thus Donald Trump joined the global conflict on technology

Eric B. Schnurer Apr 29, 2017

If you have any doubts about the true defining issue of our time, all you have to do is look at the divisions within the Trump Administration itself over economic policy: President Donald Trump is doing what he was elected to do – attack…

Of Nukes and Governments: Taking the Long View on Iran

Eric B. Schnurer Jul 6, 2009

My sister in West Africa asked if I could help her purchase a video game subscription for her son’s birthday by using her credit card. The game company could detect that she was using a computer in Africa and wouldn’t process an American…

Barack Obama, Conservative

Eric B. Schnurer Apr 8, 2009

John McCain’s campaign started calling Barack Obama a socialist last fall as a last-ditch attempt to avoid what by then looked to be near-certain defeat. Of course, at that point Obama was surging because the global financial meltdown had…

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