Thinking Out Aloud

This is an essay on the interaction between states and social orders, using China as a prism to examine European patterns, rather than th...

The always worth reading Prof. Gene Callahan posted -- citing Jared Diamond’s example of warfare among the Dani of New Guinea -- that vio...

While writing a paper on state dynamics in Latin Christendom , it was useful to try and think (think out aloud indeed) coherently about st...