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State bureaucracies, riven with sclerotic complexity, intervene in an ever-growing number of ways but with little success. As growth and living standards continue to stagnate, hist..
In the West, facial hair has been all but banished from the world of politics. It is now the enemies of the Pax Americana who sport the moustaches and beards that were once essenti..
In the long history of the United States' interest in Greenland, the pursuit of patient negotiations with allies has often fulfilled Washington's strategic requirements. This may n..
Why do people the world over enjoy listening to songs sung in French?
Squalor, when sufficiently diluted and distanced through the medium of prose, paint or song, carries an undeniably authentic charge of what it means to be mortal and mired in the f..
In the turbulent 1820s, the rise of diverse nationalisms, demands for constitutional government, and deft management by established regimes, created something new: the idea of a un..
The major forces driving 21st-century change will come not just from the actions of states and corporations but from the intricate lattice of infrastructure networks that connects ..
The claim that we are now closer to nuclear war than at any time in the past is of dubious historical value. Compared to 1962, both the United States and Russia have much better pr..
The Japanese novelist voiced nostalgia for a vanishing traditional Japan, but he also embraced the modern world’s new technologies. His dream of a nation imbued with purpose and pa..
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