social theory

the American Presidency has become very much more personal and monarchical than any European monarch ever could be.

Toynbee expounds the principle that times of trouble or rapid change produce militarism, and it is militarism that produces empire and expansion.

how do whole communities act when conquered and enslaved? The same strategy serves them as it does the lame individual in a society of warriors. They specialize and become indispensable to their masters.

Men seek in play the difficulties and demands—both intellectual and physical—they no longer find in work.