history

  The Shanghaied Republic: How the Empire Exchanged the Soil for Concrete Scratch the surface of Xi Jinping’s "China Model" and yo...

  The Sisyphus of the Soil: Thailand’s Infinite Debt Loop In the lush paddies of Thailand, a new species of "perennial" has emerge...

  The Golden Cage and the Taxman’s Axe We often look at Singapore with the yearning of a man watching a neighbor’s perfectly manicured lawn ...

  The Efficient Hive: Why Governments Love a Good Metric Human beings are, at their core, status-seeking primates with a penchant for hoardi...

  The Golden Throne of Public Procurement In the specialized zoo of human behavior, the "Bureaucratic Collector" is a fascinating ...

  The Ghost of Solon: Why History Doesn't Forgive Debt History is a relentless debt collector. From the "shaking off of burdens...

  The Three Altars of Wealth: A Taxonomy of the Chinese "Naked Ape" If we examine the "Hurun" or "Forbes" Chin...

  The Pharaoh’s New High-Speed Rail: A Monument to Human Hubris If you want to understand the modern soul, don’t look at our philosophy book...

The Gravity of Greed: Why the Poor Stay Groundless Wealth has its own gravitational pull. In physics, the more massive an object, the more i...

  The Great Pumping Station: Why Your Hard Work Evaporates History is essentially a long, bloody lesson in plumbing. We like to think of civ...