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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• America: From Colony to Superpower. Part I: 1776-1876

  In a three part essay, Colm McInerney looks at the development of the American system of Government. In this installment he examines the development from its Colonial beginings to the aftermath of the Civil War.

  
  
• What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School – or the Economics of Terrorism. Loretta Napoleoni in interview.

  While so many have framed the 'war on terror' in religious and cultural terms, Loretta Napoleoni is convinced that the analysis should be done on economic territory. Her fascinating book "Terror Inc." offers many unsettling but important insights into how we're fighting and losing the war.

  
  
• Sinister Nexus - Berlusconi and the culture of corruption. David Lane in interview.

  David Lane, author of Berlusconi's Shadow, and long time business and finance correspondent in Italy for The Economist has spent a long time focussing on Silvio Berlusconi's rise to power, and the political culture that has allowed it. David Lane in interview with Three Monkeys Online.

  
  
• Bloomin' Marvellous! Joyce and Trieste.

  Joyce is forever associated with Dublin, which is as it should be, but let's not forget that he wrote much of his work in Trieste. Dr John McCourt has recently published The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920, re-assessing the impact of Trieste on the Irish writer.

  
  
• Snapshots from the Past. A 1975 interview with former US Secretary of State Dean Rusk

  In 1975 Richard Gilbert, as part of a production for Canada's CBS, interviewed Dean Rusk. Rusk, at that stage retired, had been a serving Secretary of State for both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. The interview, over thirty years later, still resonates.