I Am in Shock...

I just deleted the seventeen paragraphs I liked the most from the ms. of Slouching Towards Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century. They just don't fit the book as a whole.

Now I need strong drink...

Now there were exceptions to this rule that even well into the age of the Industrial Revolution humans were by and large worse off than our hunter-gatherer ancestors--that post-hunter gatherer pre-industrial life was really nasty, brutish, and short. These exceptions are three...