Monthly Archives: May, 2022
Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding (Hannah Farber)
Property insurance is everywhere, but it is rarely prominent in the public mind. Its internal workings are obscure, full of technical language, esoteric customs, and mind-numbing legalese.
Roman Catholicism and Political Form (Carl Schmitt)
If, as Carl Schmitt asserted in Political Theology, “all significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts,” what does...
A Gallop in Ethiopia: Wax, Gold & the Abyssinian Pony (Yves-Marie Stranger)
It has been a long time, a millennium and a half, since Ethiopia was a relevant player on the world stage. But I sometimes...
The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World (James Burnham)
Who rules? That’s what we all want to know. The Managerial Revolution, James Burnham’s still-influential 1941 book (the subject, for example, of recent pieces...