And you can go look at a lot of press out there, but it’s a massive event that was held to celebrate essentially the Monarchy in some ways, the British Empire. And the question that we want to ask is, “Why are we still celebrating this?” You know, and here’s Tom Cruise over...
Why does North Korean dictatorship still exist? How do leaders become leaders in a representative democracy? How did French philosopher Michel Foucault define ethics? Should the U.S. continue evolving towards more of a democracy, or have we already become too much of a democracy? Explain and pr...
Why was the concept of absolute monarchy destined to fail? Why do governments provide public goods? Why do people commit crimes, according to criminology? Why are human rights important in society? Why are dictatorships and monarchies considered autocratic political systems? Why are factions a probl...
Ignores and does not eliminate the fact that something can seem incredible or unlikely and still be true, or appear to be obvious or likely and yet still be false. The world is the way it is. Reality does not bend to our personal whim and facts do not cease to exist because they are...
What Moorcockdoesn’tsay is that C. S. Lewis attacks atheists and leftists, tears down public schools, and belittles democracy in favor of glorifying monarchy. He doesn’t say The Horse and His Boy is incredibly Islamophobic or that The Last Battle uses misogyny to condemn a former protago...
Why is absolutism the best form of government? Perhaps the most important benefit of absolute monarchy is thatit can bring more stability to a country than a more feudal system often does. In addition, the absolute power of a monarch can be advantageous if the monarch is a good one. ...
Because, she said, the Commonwealth is a huge part of the monarchy, seventy percent of which is people of colour, right? I know how important representation is… how much it meant to them to be able to see someone who looks like them in this position. So should township kids look at ...
When the kings had been everywhere overthrown, and the aristocracy had become supreme, the people did not content themselves with regretting the monarchy; they aspired to restore it under a new form. In Greece, during the sixth century, they succeeded generally in procuring leaders; not wishing...
The Spanish monarchy prohibited direct commerce among various parts of the empire. Commer- cial activities were restricted to the Spanish merchants who operated with a royal charter and under home-country control. In practice, the large contraband transac- tions of local and foreign traders ...
to be objective. I don't take it personally. I don't regret the records I made — I regret the way they treated them. I think I made great records, and they tried to dilute the very essence of what they signed me for. "Don't be so offensive" — what the fuck does ...