The gullible Western press seemed to be awestruck by the whole thing, no doubt relaying back to their populations that Russia is an invincible superpower and must be appeased at all times. The report… (View Post)

BBC Today just interviewing one of those awful American commentators whose smug arrogance on the eve of a state visit seems designed to alienate the dwindling number of Brits who will give the US the… (View Post)

Other choices are available. There’s quite a long list of successful liberal democratic regimes. They tend to fill the top ranks of both GDP per capita and the human development index. (View Post)

Some see it as a spectrum, others see a break point in how and where authority is derived. With traditional authoritarians appealing to organised religion while true fascists dispense with that becau… (View Post)

Chile under Pinochet was classic authoritarian traditionalist, like most of the European regimes in the pre-war period. Church, family, obedience. But more economically literate than most of its auth… (View Post)