It is difficult to interpret the Trump administration’s wholesale attacks on governmental programs as anything other than ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted many things, but also accelerated America’s descent into a new form of feudalism. The preexisting conditions of extreme economic concentration, inequality and ...

The European Commission proposes weakening encryption for the public while maintaining strong cryptography for state actors.

For several years now, the government has been using self-scoring mechanisms as a tool to evaluate proposals on large contracts. Bidders have to answer a questionnaire of sorts. Give yourself 10 ...

American demographer, academic and author Joel Kotkin discusses his new book, 'The Coming of Neo-Feudalism' with John Anderson, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. When I say "Feudalism, ...

Hear ye, hear ye, people of America. Put aside your petty vanities and jealousies, awake from your slumber, get up off your knees, stop hiding behind locked doors, and think for a minute about what we ...

In the tradition of Hebrew prophets who protested the present more than foretold the future, Robert McClory’s As It Was in the Beginning is a prophetic work. The author is hopeful, present evidence to ...

Webster’s definition of chateau is “French feudal castle,” which conjures up images of a wealthy, upper-echelon whose very existence is due in part to the toils of the lower class. The feudal system ...

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