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The rise and fall of the world's first millionaire, a swashbuckling Scottish financier who all but bankrupted 18th-century France, may offer lessons for the world's first trilliona..
Why and how did the Templars acquire such enormous power and prominence during the Middle Ages? In a single word: marketing.
The Trump administration may finally force European leaders to achieve the elusive goal of political union. The tragedy may be that they have left it too late to act.
What will geopolitics look like in 2050? Paul Lay and Charlie Laderman sat down with the distinguished British historian Paul Kennedy. Kennedy offers his reflections on the end of ..
Classical realists remind us that America's global power has depended on durable alliances and enlightened leadership. Responsible leaders do not use their strength to humiliate pa..
Interest rates perform a huge variety of roles that are essential to the operation of a market economy. A world of continuously manipulated interest rates puts the achievements of ..
From the late Middle Ages, Latin came under sustained siege by the proponents of vernacular languages. And yet, in Hungary the language remained in everyday use well into the 19th-..
The tragic tale of two Plantagenet cousins warns us that political structures and norms are neither immutable nor eternal.
In the early eighteenth century, a victorious but war-weary Britain sought a peace with France based on a hard-headed, unsentimental approach to its own national interests. The res..
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