The Law Of Unintended Consequences Is The

Today, The Average Korean Works A Thousand Hours More A Year Than The Average German. A Thousand. ... That Is The End Of The Great Divergence.

Between 1980 And 2000 The Number Of Patents Registered In Israel Was 7652 Compared With 367 For All The Arab Countries Combined.

Empires, Essentially, Create Order. In Their Absence, You Don't End Up With Lots Of Happy, Little Nation-states Full Of People Sitting Around Campfires Singing John Lennon's "imagine." What You End Up With Is Civil War, Anarchy.

Collaboration Is Risky. If It Fails, If The Occupation Is Wound Up Prematurely And The Bad Guys Come Back To Power, You Might Find Yourself In Some Serious Trouble.

The British Press Has An Insatiable Appetite For Making Public Things That Should Be Private. It's A Prurience That I've Never Understood.