World View

One of the best tax-avoidance tactics in the late Roman Empire was to sell yourself into slavery.

In war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four, said Napoleon, and the past few days have seen a sudden and drastic shift in the balance of moral power in Syria.

What has been happening in North Korea recently is straight out of the "Hereditary Dictatorship for Dummies" handbook.

Abraham Lincoln was right: you can fool all the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.