Sean Howard

Mar 27, 2024 | brookings.edu | Andrew Fieldhouse |David Munro |Christoffer Koch |Sean Howard

Editor's note: The paper summarized here is part of the spring 2024 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the leading conference series and journal in economics for timely, cutting-edge research about real-world policy issues. Research findings are presented in a clear and accessible style to maximize their impact on economic understanding and policymaking. The editors are Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellows Janice Eberly and Jón Steinsson.

Jan 30, 2024 | rethinkingsecurity.org.uk | Sean Howard

2024 has begun with top-level calls to prepare our society and stock our arsenals for coming war. Sean Howard sees such hyperbole as paranoid and paradoxical if nuclear deterrence really does work. But what if it doesn’t?

Sep 16, 2023 | worldbeyondwar.org | Sean Howard |David Swanson

By Sean Howard, forthcoming in the Cape Breton Spectator, September 16, 2023Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war? … We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Aug 9, 2023 | capebretonspectator.com | Sean Howard

Author’s Note: In a future edition I hope to review Christopher Nolan’s movie of the moment, Oppenheimer, exploring the rise and fall of J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the top-secret Allied ‘Manhattan Project’ to build the Atomic Bomb.

Jul 18, 2023 | blog.flightpath.fm | Sean Howard

Consumption of creator-based media has surpassed traditionally produced media (including streaming services). I was surprised to see we had crossed this threshold with little fanfare. So many of us have been predicting and talking about this moment since the emergence of digital. Like me, I expect many people have not seen these results as it was somewhat buried inside an IAB report on “Brand Disruption”, released in October of 2022.