Money was commoditized labour,
Trump won ‘Trumpland
The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a partnership between the present generation and future generatio...
Roughly two fifths of the world’s population is effectively outside the financial system, without access to bank accounts, much less credit.
The shortage of cotton also drove up the price and hence the value of the South’s cotton-backed bonds, making them an irresistibly attractive investment for key members of the British political elite.
Confabulations
World War I saw the birth of total war, in the sense that it was fought between societies as much as armies.
All these people want is a chance for the future, a chance they will follow with a strict consequentness [sic]. They will resent pity, they will be suspicious of oversolicitousness. They have seen man...
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
The Internet is merely ‘the modern public square’,
On Facebook ‘the user is the product
Houses are pretty illiquid assets - which means they are hard to sell quickly when you are in a financial jam. House prices are ‘sticky’ on the way down because sellers hate to cut the asking price in...
Annus mirabilis
And ingenuous outsiders, like Groucho Marx.83
The striking thing is that the transatlantic divergence in working patterns has coincided almost exactly with a comparable convergence in religiosity. Europeans not only work less; they also pray less...
The problem is that the ISIS network defies conventional counter-terrorist tactics. Contrary to popular belief, this is not because its relies on ‘lone wolves’, who by their very nature are hard to de...
Known to the Chinese as ‘Iron-Headed Old Rat
Just as Hitler had predicted, it was rival empires more than indigenous nationalists who propelled the process of decolonization forward.
Welter
Valley of the clueless