people power

Immigrants are a source of energy to a country.

importance of the polis

When someone lives in London, we don’t say he lives in England. A person is from Paris, not France. Certain cities earn their status as city-states.

stategraft

Do impoverished countries engender corruption, or is it that states that tolerate corruption inevitably remain impoverished?

no one thing

It’s a mistake to talk of Americans as though one people, or to speak of the USA as though one country. We the people: Are many peoples and many notions of a nation, uneasily held together.

capital job, china

China is capitalism’s dream country: A nation with no political freedom that can make goods at a low price point.

unnecessary nation state

Another province that aspires to be a piss-ant state.

hard liquor

It was the kind of country where the water was just fine, but the admonition was, “Don’t drink the hooch.”