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"[ T ]HE BRITISH EMPIRE ... CONTAINED ITS FAIR share of errors, failures, and evils—both innocently inadvertent and culpable. That shou...

From Rousseau to Marx, philosophers of a certain bent argued pre-modern societies possessed an inherent nobility that is destroyed by civili...

" I' d like to quote the founder and proprietor of Our World in Data , who said that the papers could have had the headline: '1...

"Q: When you see the bad distribution of wealth, so few who have so much and so many who have nothing… did you ever have a moment of d...

" R ome fed 200,000 families free grain by 46 BC, and it called this generosity. Julius Caesar inherited a dole of 320,000 recipients a...

  " I n 1820, 94 out of every 100 people lived in extreme poverty. Forty-three children out of every 100 died before the age of five. E...

  "[ A ] phrase the Americans of the 1760s and 1770s invoked repeatedly [was] the “spirit of liberty.” The phrase “spirit of liberty” u...

Modern historians have rarely told the truth about the history of capitalism, especially about the early days of the Industrial Revolution. ...

" A rtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our lifetimes — and a graveyard for the companies built to own ...

" T o the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money — and I have no higher, more reveren...

"[ T ]he principal aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights, which were vested in them by the...

 " C ountries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free." ~ Montesquieu from his 1748 book The Spirit of ...

I t's a busy week . This week also marks the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, the first in-depth exploration and...

" T he time will therefore come when the sun will shine only on free men who know no other master but their reason; when tyrants and sl...

I have in front of me a new book by Tross Publishing, which I have been invited to review. Having written a chapter or two for the publisher...

G ood to see more folk acknowledging that Waitangi Day should also be recognised as NZ's Emancipation Day.  Posted on the 6th, by David ...

A historian and cultural commentator has been examining the reliability of AIs for historical research, with thoughts on the future of AI ...

" S o many people quote the famous line from Thucydides— 'The strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must...