A Changing World

The United States (and the world) was a much different place following World War I. Understandably, new groups were finding ways to rise in power and to improve their financial prospects. The “Old Guard” understandably sought to hold on to their privileged...

A Changing World

The discovery of America, and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest events recorded in the history of [human] kind”—Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, 1776. Think about why he and many other notables supported this...

A Changing World

The discovery of America and that of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two (2) greatest events recorded in the history of [human] kind” – Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations,1776. Think about why he and many other notables supported...