
New Worlds: Can You Spare a Coin
The practice of begging came up in passing back in Year Four, when we discussed charity. I want to loop back around, though, and look
The practice of begging came up in passing back in Year Four, when we discussed charity. I want to loop back around, though, and look
Servants and aristocrats: wildly different on the social scale, yet often found together.
Ah, aristocracy. It would be the best form of government . . . if only it were humanly possible to implement as originally conceived, instead
Having spent last week talking about the specific differentiations between class, status, and caste, I’m going to attempt to avoid all those terms this week
When talking about the divisions within a society, we tend to toss around terminology with a lamentable lack of precision. But it’s useful to pay
If I followed the general pattern of this Patreon, I would write an essay that gives an overview of different basic economic systems. But as
If you’ve ever taken an economics class — or possibly even if you haven’t — you’ve probably encountered the notion of the “invisible hand” that
“It’s mine!” All of us probably uttered that sentence at some point in our childhood — probably many, many times. One of the jobs of
Where does wealth come from? The answer to that question has changed over time, to a far greater degree than you may realize if you’re
My original title for this essay was “Magic and Culture.” But that makes those two things sound separate, like they exist side-by-side, and the point
Our previous tour through physical punishments, back in Year Four, stopped short of a rather crucial one: execution. (Content warnings for basically every form of
I was originally going to title this essay “We Have Ways of Making You Talk,” but I decided that was too flippant for the subject
One of the interesting things about police as an element of society is just how broad the concept is. In various times and places, their