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The role of anti-blackness in the Arab slave trades
The long-run decline of violence in Europe, and why poverty is not responsible for violent crime
The historical poverty of the Indian masses, origins of the great divergence, and why East Asian growth miracle but not South Asian
The American incarceration rate explained
More in history
New York City in 1980 had a look that can be surprisingly difficult to picture today. The buildings are familiar, the streets are recognizable, and the crowds move with the same hurried energy, yet the details belong unmistakably to another time. Cars from another generation line the curbs, shop signs have different names, and people […]
On British “Spies” and News from India
I’m wondering how well I might organize my cultural drift messages around a few key slogans.
