The US is not *yet* an autocracy. If it becomes one under Trump, we can safely assume that it will become not just less free but also less competently run. But, if you do want worked examples of effi… (View Post)

The big drawbacks are rampant corruption, suppression of personal freedom, indifference to the welfare of the masses from those at the top, and probably most important of all - inability for those at… (View Post)

You're overlooking the base figure that each country is coming from. (View Post)

Whatever his faults, (and despite the one-child folly), I think that Deng did do an incredible amount of good, for a very high proportion of the human race. (View Post)

I'd say there is no such thing as 4D chess, which is where quite a lot of novelists go wrong, when writing of war and politics, and coming up with fiendishly complex (and highly improbable), str… (View Post)