It can’t have escaped notice that American presidents have some of the tightest security in the world. It got that way because of the constant credible threats against the lives of high profile politicians. Just four presidents have been successfully...
In a sense, philosophy is all about questions. Philosophers, like moral scientists, rely on each other to give answers to the deep philosophical questions that have proved so difficult to answer. Questions that have no absolute answer like scientific questions do....
Proper dictatorships feel like something of a different era – the Soviet Union and the European absolute monarchies spring to mind. But there are 50 modern dictatorships operating today. Fifty nations which have been denied democracy. Fifty nations abused by a small...
The People’s Republic of China is genuinely one of the most bizarre countries I the world. It’s a communist dictatorship that really isn’t communist at all. Communist dictatorships always tend to be weird, just look at North Korea. But China has...
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, which means we are a democracy but still have a king or queen. The current Royal family is the House of Windsor, who enjoy diplomatic responsibility despite holding no actual power. But before the English Civil-War, the...
Looking back at the 19th century, it seems like everyone was insane. From the Occult to imperialism, people back then were into all sorts of bizarre things. Combine that with human nature and you’ve got some truly interesting political parties. The enlightenment...
