To Make A Living Space, There First

When I First Came To Oxford, I Struggled To Feel Comfortable In An Anglican, Public School-dominated Institution.

Empires, Essentially, Create Order. In Their Absence, You Don't End Up With Lots Of Happy, Little Nation-states Full Of People Sitting Around Campfires Singing John Lennon's "imagine." What You End Up With Is Civil War, Anarchy.

So Much Of Liberalism In Its Classical Sense Is Taken For Granted In The West Today And Even Disrespected. We Take Freedom For Granted, And Because Of This We Don't Understand How Incredibly Vulnerable It Is.

Today, The Average Korean Works A Thousand Hours More A Year Than The Average German. A Thousand. ... That Is The End Of The Great Divergence.

The Rise Of The West Is, Quite Simply, The Pre-eminent Historical Phenomenon Of The Second Half Of The Second Millennium After Christ.