Abandoned Footnotes

When asked, “What do you know about Yugoslavia?” the peasant, painstaking and placid, answered, “It is a pseudosocialist country run by rev...

About six months ago, Tom Pepinsky wrote a post , on the occasion of Lee Kuan Yew’s death, where he argued graphically that Lee Kuan Yew’s ...

In a lovely piece published nearly three decades ago , the French historian Paul Veyne noted that much “propaganda” art throughout history ...

(Warning: A long and rambling graph-heavy post on public opinion by someone who has never worked with public opinion data before, and who is...

Widespread fictitious economic accounting was foiling planners to the point that the KGB employed its own spy satellites to ascertain the s...

I've been reading a lot about various dictators this summer. And again and again I am struck by the existence of what one might call “e...

(I normally don’t write on current events, since I’m not a specialist in the politics of any country, but I had just finished  Michael Herb...