Modern prosperity didn’t arrive because factories suddenly sprouted; it emerged because a culture made the pursuit and sharing of useful knowledge both honorable and inevitable. In A Culture of Growth, … Read more
Rome didn’t just conquer; it standardized a continent. If you’ve ever wondered how one city turned agrarian inequality, foreign wars, and legal procedure into a machine that outlived its founders, … Read more
So much of early Rome is fogged by legend; Mommsen’s Volume 1 shows how geography, institutions, and law—not miracles—built a city that became a state. He answers the core problem: … Read more