How the Struggle Between Popes and Kings Shaped Civil Liberties
Europe’s path to liberty, capitalism and prosperity began in a medieval contest between Church and state. In the second essay in h…
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Igor Koso
The Faith That Made Us Rich: Christianity and the European Miracle
Europe grew vastly wealthier, added four decades to life expectancy and became the most successful civilization in history. In the…
Brussels Bureaucrats: The Modern Mandarins
Economist Thomas Sowell describes a new elite that produces ideas but not values, shaping society without bearing the consequences…
A Look Back: How Bureaucrats Halted China
The American historian Edward Dreyer writes that China’s great naval expeditions ended at the initiative of Confucian officials wh…