The electoral result in Colombia is the clearest sign of the end of an era that has lasted 500 years in Latin America. This epoch is that of the medieval order. The people of Colombia have made it very clear that they prefer to be governed by figures other than the elites of the medieval…
In the spring of 2018, I spent several weeks traveling throughout Southeast Asia visiting Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand to study the organic nature of the political ideas governing these regimes. Politically, Laos and Vietnam are Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republics, presumably in some state of undefined transition. Cambodia is a former French protectorate, and is…
