World History

It took many centuries for regimes to secure the sort of prestige and power necessary to claim a monopoly over money. From the state's perspective, it has been worth it. 

Capitalism is not a "legacy of colonialism" in Africa. In fact, markets and interregional trade have long been practiced on the continent. And markets today are still the answer to raising standards of living.

Vaccine mandates are not a new invention, and states have long pushed a narrative exaggerating the success of mandates in the past. 

Vaccine mandates are not a new invention, and states have long pushed a narrative exaggerating the success of mandates in the past. 

So oppressive was the Inca regime that it's no wonder the Spaniards found many enemies willing to help topple the empire.

Churchill was from first to last a Man of the State, of the welfare state and of the warfare state. Churchill never had a principle he did not in the end betray.

OPEC is not irrelevant, but the fact is that rising oil prices are more a function of monetary inflation and government efforts to stifle the oil industry.

If we wish to gain insight into the essence of nationality, we must proceed not from the nation but from the individual. What is the national aspect of the individual person and what determines his belonging to a nation?

When the State faces high costs of colonizing land, it may allow anarchic settlement, then appropriate it. Two cases of Russian religious sects demonstrate this.

In an economy where the ruling party controls enormous portions of the economy, attempts to redistribute some of that state-owned wealth isn't necessarily a move against the private sector.