Sublime

the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.

Journal,

Benedict Anderson, author of Imagined Communities,

Paul Smith

James Coleman,

On Europe’s Inner Asian frontier, demographic expansion long seemed as hobbled as it was in mainland North America until the 1750s.

‘exploratory social science’.

Alexis de Tocqueville