Sublime

On June 3, 1982, Palestinian terrorists shot Israel’s ambassador to England, Shlomo Argov, in London.

At around midnight on February 28, 1986, as the Palmes were walking home from the cinema, an unknown assailant fired several shots at them, injuring Lisbet but killing Palme. The shock to this peaceful nation of having its prime minister gunned down in the street is hard to overestimate; indeed, Palme’s murder still resonates among an entire genera

History is an amazing teacher. The stories it has to tell are more interesting than any we could make up. And many of the more interesting relate to the fall of Rome. They document important lessons that could be relevant to your future in the Information Age.

At Bretton Woods, in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, the soon-to-be-victorious Allies met in July 1944 to devise a new financial architecture for the post-war world. In this new order, trade would be progressively liberalized, but restrictions on capital movements would remain in place. Exchange rates would be fixed, as under the gold standard, bu

Les dernières décennies ont été l’ère la plus pacifique de toute l’histoire humaine. Alors que dans les premières sociétés agricoles la violence humaine causait jusqu’à 15 % des morts, elle n’en a causé que 5 % au XXe siècle ; aujourd’hui, ce pourcentage est de 1 % seulement