Feudalism had its faults as well as its merits; but it never conceived anything so contemptible of degrading to the character of a man as the flunkeyism that surrounded LOUIS XIV. and symbolized ...

Centuries ago, feudalism flourished on different continents in different ways, but it usually involved a hierarchy of nobility granting land and favors to peasants who worked to serve their masters.

Apparently, it has something to do with the national psychology. While we apportion the biggest blame for feudalism — and, indeed, there are valid reasons for it — we tend to overlook the ...

The task is to move away from digital feudalism, the term I coined back in 2019 to describe the dominant digital platforms' model of rent extraction. AI is not just another sector. It is a general ...