Feudalism

5 movie “Back to the Future,” Marty McFly (played by Michael J. Fox) travels in a time machine from the 1980s to the 1950s. When he tells people of the ’50s he is from the ’80s, he is met with skepticism. 1950s person: Then tell me, future boy, who’s Preside…

Photograph Source: José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro – CC BY-SA 4.0 Almost 700 years ago, as many people in Europe were trying to climb out of the squalor of so-called feudalism, Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted a series of frescos in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena whic…

Hoisted from the Archives: Perhaps. And Sometimes https://www.cato-unbound.org/2010/09/16/j-bradford-delong/perhaps-sometimes: In 542 AD the late Roman (early Byzantine?) Emperor Justinian I wrote to his Praetorian Prefect concerning the army — trained and eq…

This week Senator and leading presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unveils his eagerly awaited corporate reform plan. As anticipated, it is one of the two most ambitious plans, if not the most ambitious plan, on offer. The Plan includes multiple provisions u…

Authored by Richard Tafel via Quillette.com, Understanding American politics has become increasingly confusing as the old party labels have lost much of their meaning. A simplistic Left vs. Right worldview no longer captures the complexity of whats going on.…

People frequently allege that, under capitalism, people aren’t paid what they are worth to employers. As a measure of how frequently that gets repeated, a Google search of “underpaid” I just did turned up 1,770,000 hits. And there is one sense in which that …

In a fairly blunt warning to the NATO ally, US President Donald Trump vowed to “obliterate” the Turkish economy if he thinks it’s stepped out of line in Syria. He then told Ankara to “watch over” ISIS fighters in the US’ absence. “If Turkey does anything tha…

Italian police have launched an investigation after an effigy of 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg was found hanged from an overpass. Reports on Monday claimed a dummy with pigtails made in the likeness of the Swedish activist appeared hanged from …

The next great political civil wars wont be over race, the nation-state, religion or even class. They will be generational, pitching the Boomers, who still dominate the global economy, against their offspring, the Millennials, who assuredly do not. Of course…

Though Amazon Prime Video has been matching its biggest competitor Netflix when it comes to spending on original series in India, that's not the case when it comes to the film side of things. Thankfully, its collection of licensed films at least those in Hind…