Thinking Out Aloud

Attempts to compare Christianity and Islam often involve citing Scriptures or specific doctrines. The problem with doing so is that, within...

Based on a comment I originally made here . The US is at once both a revolutionary and a status quo Power. It is a revolutionary Power ...

In Austrian school economics, and economics influenced by the same, there is often talk of entrepreneurs as making plans . This turns up, f...

Appeasement --in the form of conciliatory concessions--can be a perfectly reasonable way of dealing with folk. It entirely depends on how l...

So, a black guy with a long criminal record, a history of mental illness and attempted suicide, attempts to murder his girlfriend , kills t...

I recently read Kenneth Pollack's Ph.D dissertation on The Influence of Arab culture on Arab Military Effectiveness (which later becam...

Have been reading a Ph.D dissertation by Wenkai He on t he consolidation of a modern fiscal state in C18th England and late C19th Japan an...

Having previously defined the state as (a structure of) systematic coercion requiring hierarchy to operate and revenues to sustain itself...