Feudalism

Let me quote a Trumpian figure from long ago, Henry Ford. That’s right, the bigot who created the Ford Motor Company (and once even ran for president). Back in 1916, in an interview with a Chicago Tribune reporter, he offered this bit of wisdom on the subject of history: “Say,…

Back in 2007, film director Aaron Russo said during an interview with Alex Jones he was told by Nicholas Rockefeller the ruling elite planned to microchip every human on the planet. Rockefeller had tried to recruit Russo, who made a name for himself producing the popular Hollywood films Trading Places…

Crises like pandemics, economic collapses and world wars have, at times throughout history, ended up reordering societies — shrinking the gap between the rich and the poor, or empowering the working class. The Black Death helped end feudalism. The Great Depression helped lead to the New Deal. Never has extreme…

Let me quote a Trumpian figure from long ago, Henry Ford. That’s right, the bigot who created the Ford Motor Company (and once even ran for president). Back in 1916, in an interview with a Chicago Tribune reporter, he offered this bit of wisdom on the subject of history: “Say,…

I am a huge fan of David Lynch’s arguably flawed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s remarkable novel Dune. Despite the problems with story compression, omissions, and a director who had no particular interest in science fiction, the film has a look and feel that is all its own, a strange futuristic…

History Is More or Less BunkThe Light at the End of the Tunnel?By Tom Engelhardt Let me quote a Trumpian figure from long ago, Henry Ford. That’s right, the bigot who created the Ford Motor Company (and once even ran for president). Back in 1916, in an interview with a…

This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about permissions/licensing, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.comOf course there is a lot of doom and gloom amid the novel coronavirus crisis.But when the dust settles,…

Candice Harris United StatesLos AngelesCalifornia Great Scott! In early April 2020, Ion Game Design and Sierra Madre Games launched a Kickstarter campaign for the second edition of Pax Renaissance and their latest addition to the Pax series: Pax Viking. Whether you're already a fan of the series or simply Pax-curious,…

If the financial downturn proves to be intractable, “all bets are off,” says scholar Walter Scheidel. "If there is one lesson we can draw from history, it is: What really matters is the way that this kind of crisis shapes political preferences and decision making." In times of doom and…

This is not your normal zoonotic pandemic virus. That would be the famous Black Plague of 1348 spread by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It arrived in northern Italy from the Crimean Peninsula, and eventually reached all of Europe, killing off a third of the population. Recent archeology suggests the same…