Stein’s Law at first glance might seem like a banal platitude. But we should be fully cognizant of its implications: an unsustainable system must have an end. The American empire is internally ...

The president-elect—who pushed for an invasion of Mexico during his first term—has spent the ... Is this just a tired throwback to the country’s empire-building past, or a recognition ...

Despite this, Nero's persecution of the new Christian sect was brief and, in the first century at least, was not repeated in other parts of the empire. When asked by Pliny the Younger how to deal ...