On the African State

There's a scene in the fourth season of Succession, an HBO TV show, where the protagonist--Logan Roy, tells his would-be heirs that they "are not serious people."

Human habitats

Some 10,000 years ago cities emerged in the Fertile Crescent. Around that same time, human beings begun toying with a new technology--agriculture. We often don't think of agriculture as

Peace is conflict

We often think about peace as an idyllic state of being where there is tranquility, and there is an absence of conflict. The problem with this view of peace is that it runs