Feudalism

That's Elena Ferrante: take me or leave me. The terms are the same, always have been: you send your written questions to her publisher and/or, the publisher sends you back her answers. This time the theme was obvious, since her new novel has just come out. "L…

Earlier in this decade, citiesthe bigger and denser the betterappeared as the planets geographic stars. According to Benjamin Barber, author of the 2013 book If Mayors Ruled the World, everyone would be better off if the ineffective, aging nation-state were r…

MORE people speak Javanese than Malay, Burmese or even Thai. Indeed, 95 million people, or fully 40% of Indonesias 265 million strong population, are Javanese speakers. However, Javanese is not the national language of the Republic. That is Bahasa Indonesia,…

Facebook TwitterGoogle+LinkedIn As I expected, many people missed the point of my previous post. Some people used examples like modern dentistry to make the argument for progress. That completely misses my point. I may be wrong, but not because I don’t under…

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of French Press coffee, grab a seat on the aisle, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: Americas Drift toward Feudalism (American Affairs)Captive tigers in the U.S. outnumber those in the wild. It’s a prob…

What does it mean to celebrate Andres Bonifacio?

Fremont, Wisconsin — For nearly two centuries, the Rieckmann family has raised cows for milk in this muddy patch of land in the middle of Wisconsin. Mary and John Rieckmann, who now run the farm and its 45 cows, have seen all manners of ups and downs — drough…

Chinas failure to kick a long-standing addiction to coal has thrown a knockout punch to the Paris Agreement of 2015, including its 195 signatories. Suddenly, out of the blue, the world has turned upside down! Sixteen months ago July 16th, 2018: China and the…

NTA UGC NET December 2019 Social Work Paper can be easily cracked in first attempt, if the candidates start practicing the previous year papers of UGC NET Social Work Paper-2 Exam. Practicing of previous year papers in online mode can help in improving your s…

America's emergence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries represented a dramatic break from the past. The United States came on the scene with only vestiges of the old European feudal order—mostly in the plantation economy of the Deep South. There was no…