The first thing to say about laissez-faire liberalism is that it arose in Europe, specifically in Western Christendom. This story goes back many centuries. It ...

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Some call it the Dark Ages. At that time, the Holy Roman Empire dominated much of Europe with a feudal system of government where "might is right and woe to the weak." Like the chessboard ...

In Das Kapital, Karl Marx outlined a historical progression of socioeconomic systems: tribal communism, slave societies, feudalism, capitalism, socialism, and ...

Political scientists and historians weigh in on authoritarianism’s impact on the United States.