A new book defends a Marxist theory of the origins of capitalism. Along the way it shows why understanding the transition ...

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class, by Joel Kotkin, (New York: Encounter Books, 2020), 224 pages. Few policy items have more ominously heralded the ongoing realignment ...

1. Opposition in the North There was support in the north of England for Edgar the Atheling to become king. This was a huge threat to William. Rebellions in the North could threaten his rule and ...

On a hot afternoon in July, 10-year-old Tabassum Iqbal went for a swim in the well of a local landlord in the village of Chak Bhola, in Pakistan’s largest province of Punjab. Tabassum and his family ...

Recently Australia has passed a law forcing Google and Facebook to pay news publications under a News Media Bargaining Code law. Facebook, Apple, Netflix etc have been facing the flak from many ...

Feudalism has been gradually eliminated in a number of countries but somehow it still exists very strongly in Pakistan, particularly in Sindh, although not in its original sense. Now we don't find ...

There are still people who refer to Korean history in terms of “feudalism.” The evidence is quite to the contrary ― there was no real feudalistic stage in Korean history. The problem is two-fold: (1) ...

Sindh has long been synonymous with feudal culture. The argument for it has always been that landlords provide livelihoods, housing and food to the men and women they employ. Conversely, there are ...

1. Opposition in the North There was support in the north of England for Edgar the Atheling to become king. This was a huge threat to William. Rebellions in the North could threaten his rule and ...