“I’d probably be cooking meth if I wasn’t a UFC fighter.”—Sean Strickland, UFC fighter and former middleweight champion

“You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in [martial arts].”—Joe Rogan

People have the right to defend themselves. That claim isn’t especially controversial. What is less obvious is that people also need to know how to defend themselves. And in a world saturated with fake martial arts and ineffective self-defense techniques, gaining that knowledge is harder than it sounds.

[Libertarian Anarchy by Gerard Casey (Continuum, 2012)]

Methodological individualism is best known for its applications in economics, and its importance for historical analysis is often overlooked. The main significance for historical inquiry lies in rejecting the dominant discourse which explains historical events purely by reference to collective group identity such as race or class.

Long before the Blockchain Era, a landmark Scottish lawsuit posed a question that still echoes today: Can money carry memory—or must it forget? In 1748, Hew Crawfurd—a lawyer in Edinburgh—signed and recorded the serial numbers of two £20 notes before mailing them to a merchant in Glasgow. When the letter failed to arrive, Crawfurd notified the bank and publicized the theft. Months later, one note resurfaced at the Royal Bank’s office. In Crawfurd v.