This is the second of two ruminations derived from a reading of a 2008 academic paper by Walter Scheidel of Stanford University, 'Monog...

Christianity in Europe is far from dead. It has split into many elements, liberal and conservative, communitarian and evangelical, Catholi...

Around 425 BC, Athenian imperialism turned on the small city-state of Melos. The Melians wished to stay neutral but this was not good enough...