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Where’s the World Headed & the Rise of Cities, a Quickie

Scotland recently came close to pulling out of Great Britain. What’s that about? As the day of the vote drew near I’d see stories on the theme: If Scotland goes, what next? Catalonia? Quebec? Vermont?...

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The Economist explains: How Palestine might become a state | The Economist

As a form of territorial governance, the nation-state emerged in Western Europe some time during the last 1000 years. Just when and where depends, of course, on just what you think qualifies as a...

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The demise of the nation-state in the 21st century

At the moment the nation-state seems to be the right and natural way for humans to govern themselves, and yet we know that it was a historical invention cobbled together and refined over decades and...

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Trump and the end of the administrative state

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henniger asks the question of the decade, “Will the Trump presidency produce order or merely more disorder?” Correlatively, if it does produce a new order,...

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Sometimes David Brooks Makes Sense: After the Women’s March

From today’s NYTimes: In the first place, this movement focuses on the wrong issues. Of course, many marchers came with broad anti-Trump agendas, but they were marching under the conventional...

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The Nation State as an Agent of War

Tyler Cowen has a recent post consisting of the abstract to a working paper by Alberto Alesina, Bryony Reich, Alessandro Riboni, “Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars”. Here’s that abstract: The...

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The city-state redux

Jamie Bartlett, in Aeon: Until the mid-19th century, most of the world was a sprawl of empires, unclaimed land, city-states and principalities, which travellers crossed without checks or passports. As...

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The demise of the nation state

I’ve been reading about this for several years now. Rana Dasguta has an article of that title in The Guardian for April 5, 2018. Here’s some excerpts: The most momentous development of our era,...

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Denmark has appointed an ambassador to Silicon Valley [a call for GOOD]

Silicon Valley, of course, is not a sovereign country. It is a loose collection of powerful tech companies in Northern California. Adam Satariano, The World’s First Ambassador to the Tech Industry,...

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