It is recorded of Heimdall, tlie warder of the Scandinavian gods, that the subtlety of his ear was so great that he could hear the grass growing in the meadows, and the wool on the hacks of the sheep. There is a segment of society who, lacking this acuteness of sense and perception, deny or doubt the progressive intellectual and moral growth of the nation. They cannot trace this growth from day...

The current paper constructs a progress measurement appropriate for measuring multiple and different dimensions of progress. The paper is not meant to be a detailed discussion of the framework but rather a demonstrated application of the measure. The constructed resource-infrastructure-environment (RIE) progress measure employs a nonmonetary evaluation adopting a weighting technique based on pu...

Nation State malware and tools are not magical. However, they are effective because they are developed in private, have a budget, and maybe teams of engineers. Whenever one of these digital weapons is released to the public, discovered via forensics or an information leak, it allows all interested parties to learn and improve either their defensive or offensive capabilities. This paper inspects...

The state—let alone the nation-state—was not at the center of attention of Western social scientists for the quarter century that followed the end of the Second World War. The defeated fascist powers seemed so close to nationalism and to statism that these forces received a bad name. The fact that victorious Western powers championed a postwar order organized around liberal ideas thereby set th...

We demonstrate that citizens perceive a duty to support policies that benefit their nation, even when they themselves judge that the consequences of the policies will be worse on the whole, taking outsiders into account. In terms of actions, subjects think they would do their perceived duty rather than violate it for the sake of better consequences. The discrepancy between duty and judged conse...