War on Different Scales
So I don’t remember where I originally saw this, and can’t for the life of me refi...
History
The 17th Amendment killed Federalism
Well, not really. The expansion of Federal power at the expense of State’s rights,...
Switzerland Decal Lectures
At UC Berkeley, there’s this super awesome program called Decals, in which student...
Innovation through Economic States of Exception
”America is somewhere between dire straights and dead.” — Peter Thiel Inno...
How Abandoning the Gold Standard helped the Rise of Centrally Planned Economies
In his work The Great Transformation, Polanyi writes that the Gold Standard was th...
Switzerland and Belgium: Two Approaches to a Multilingual State
Today, Switzerland is one of the most successful countries in the world, boasting ...
An Ancien ‘Military’ Régime: Nationalism in the French Revolutionary Army
In the study of the French Revolution, the common narrative pushed by the “nation-...
British Colonialism and Social Change in the Metropole
Common analyses of 19th century European colonialism tend to focus on the effects ...
Defining the Nation-State
If you pull out a recent world map, you will likely see large swaths of land that ...
Why I Study the Social Sciences?
I study philosophy to learn how people ought to act. I study economics to learn ho...
Animal Farm Responses
While reading Animal Farm, I decided to do my reflections a little bit differently...
Virgil: The Epic Poet
In its time of rebirth, the world’s greatest empire needed a source of inspiration...
From Sea to Shining Sea: The Birth of Union Pacific
At 12:17 p.m. on May 10, 1869, telegraph cables around the country transmitted a s...
Night by Eli Wiesel
If I had to choose one word to describe the entire book, it would be the word “los...
Alice in Wonderland Political Allusions
In Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass,...
“Conspiracy” Movie
The most interesting thing that I noticed while watching this movie was that the N...
Gaddafi’s Libya as an Empire
The spring of 2011 was a time of turmoil. It was a time of democracy. It was a tim...