Thought From Engelsberg

Was Shiite Islam the first ideology when it emerged more than a thousand years ago, promising that justice could be achieved if only the right rulers were installed? The Engelsberg conference takes place in an elegant manor house adjoining the largely shuttered steelworks which made the fortune of …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday June 9, 2011

Why the Industrial Revolution Hit Britain First

Gregory Clark's new book, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, makes an important point about why England industrialized first. Last month I (belatedly) read Gregory Clark's, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World . One of the key assertions in …

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Written by David Frum on Sunday February 27, 2011