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Jamaica’s Reparations Campaign is a Waste of a Good Government (opens the original)
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Jamaica has pulled off one of the developing world’s most impressive financial turnarounds. So why is its Government focusing on reparations claims instead of telling that success story to the world? asks Lipton Matthews.By Lipton Matthews<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ErJZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc4cd9dd-5e13-47d2-97bf
JASON ARDAY'S DEATH IS A TRAGEDY, BUT DON'T BLAME NATHAN COFNAS (opens the original)
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Jason Arday resigned as professor of sociology at Cambridge on August 5, and was found dead at his home in south London on August 14,2026. The Metropolitan Police have said his death is being treated as unexpected but not suspicious. His family, in a statement released through his publisher, described a “campaign of harassment” that had become too much for him. Cambridge’s vice-chancellor, Deborah Prentice, said that Cambridge has been made desperately saddened by his passing.Whatever else is tr
The Unacknowledged Engine: Empires as Agents of Development and Institutional Progress (opens the original)
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Scan the map of the world and ask which nations never fell under imperial rule or foreign domination at some point in their history. The list is vanishingly short. From the river valleys of Mesopotamia to the forests of Germania, from the coasts of West Africa to the islands of the Pacific, virtually every corner of the inhabited world has, at one time or another, been absorbed into an empire built by someone else. Conquest and subjugation are not aberrations in the human story; they constitute
BRAZIL'S SLAVE-OWNING SLAVES (opens the original)
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The question of slavery has returned with force to the centre of public and political life. Governments across the Western world face mounting pressure to apologise for their roles in the transatlantic slave trade, and debates about reparations have moved from the margins of academic discourse into the halls of parliament and congress. The Edward Colston statue has been pulled from its plinth and dropped into Bristol harbour, and Dutch critics argue that the Netherlands’ formal apology for its r
WHY EUROPEANS DOMINATED THE WORLD AND NOT EAST ASIANS (opens the original)
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Why did Europe, and not China, become the dominant power of the modern world? It is a question that has kept historians arguing for decades, and for good reason. Around 1000 CE, China was arguably the more advanced civilization, with better engineering, a more sophisticated bureaucracy, and larger cities than anything Europe had to offer. And it was not just China. Japan and Korea also had relatively high human capital levels during the pre-industrial era and by seve
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