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More than 4,000 years ago, the city of Kanesh was quickly becoming an important commercial trading hub within the ancient Assyrian Empire. Kanesh was located in the dead center of modern day Turkey, so it was perfectly situated on the route between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and between

The first time I was sent to the gas chamber was in late July 1996. I’m not being dramatic– that’s literally what they called it. I was 17 years old… a brand new cadet at West Point undergoing my first summer of basic training. It’s affectionately known as ‘Beast Barracks’,

Thousands of years ago in 458 BC, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus was hard at work behind his plow on the family farm when a group of Roman Senators showed up with urgent news. A foreign enemy called the Acqui had vanquished one of Rome’s armies and was rapidly approaching the city.

For this week’s round-up of articles, we’re taking a look at some of the things the government thinks should be banned in response to coronavirus. WHO urges governments to ban alcohol during lockdown Last week we talked about how the World Health Organization was coming for your sick family members.

In the early 1530s, a Spanish conquistador named Diego de Ordaz was exploring modern-day Venezuela when he first heard rumors of a nearby City of Gold. Ordaz thought he was about to hit the jackpot. And he wasted no time ordering expeditions of the area to find this city– what

Nearly seven centuries ago in the mid-1300s, the first major outbreak of the Bubonic Plague forced Europeans into some of the harshest social distancing measures in history. As Boccacio wrote in The Decameron in 1353, the hysteria was so extreme that “brother abandoned brother. . . fathers and mothers refused

Well this is starting to become a trend. Over the past few weeks, state governments across the Land of the Free have been feverishly proposing new legislation that will virtually guarantee the entire insurance industry is wiped out. The root of the issue has to do with something called business

For this week’s round-up of articles, we noticed a theme: the most alarming articles are about governments going over-the-top, grabbing powers in the name of stopping the Coronavirus. Here are some examples that we found absurd, and downright creepy: WHO officials says next step could be separating families A World

Earlier this week we talked about why the economic consequences of this pandemic could last a lot longer than what a lot of people expect. Now, I say all of this from a position of complete ignorance and uncertainty. Nobody knows what’s going to happen next, or how long this

The big story over the last few days has been ‘reopening the economy’. And that’s certainly a nice idea. Countless people have been living in despair over the last month, and the prospect of everything going back to normal soon feels really great. I certainly hope for the best. But

In the words of Rahm Emanuel, former Chief of Staff to Barack Obama, “never let a good crisis go to waste.” Emanuel first said this during the 2008/2009 financial crisis… meaning that politicians can use a crisis as an opportunity to push through radical ideas that would otherwise never be