Re-Imagining the Cosmopolitan Constitution: A Comment on Alexander Somek'sThe Cosmopolitan Constitution

‘Belonging’ in the cosmopolitan imaginary

In the 1990s, much discourse both in and about global civil society was beset by a false opposition. On the one side was the utopia of cosmopolitan liberalism. On the other was the specter of reactionary nationalism or fundamentalism. And, of course, in a variety of settings, some national and some diasporically transnational, the value loading was reversed: fundamentalist or national utopia, t...

On the Constitution of a Compound Republic

is a series of distinguished essays on political economy and public policy. The Cato Institute takes its name from an earlier series of Cato's Letters, essays on political liberty written by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon in the 18th century, which were widely read in the American colonies and played a major role in laying the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution. Additional c...

Cosmopolitan distribution of a trypanosomatid Leptomonas pyrrhocoris.

A trypanosomatid species, designated as Typing Unit 1 (TU1) by sequences of SL RNA gene repeats, has been found in the intestine of pyrrhocorids (Insecta: Heteroptera) in Europe, Mediterranean, Central America and some parts of Asia and Africa. Phylogenetic analysis of the SL repeat sequences has shown that the isolates group in the tree according to their geographic origin. The maximal sequenc...

Taxation and the Constitution

The Constitution of Status