I followed a recommendation and discovered this wonderful short story by Winston Churchill from 1930. Churchill demonstrates, in this story, his mastery in using words to express ideas and his sharp analytical abilities in this interesting attempt to play with alternative history:
THE quaint conceit of imagining what would have happened if some important or unimportant event [...]
When the NY Times publish an an article like this it has to be a good day:
Bullying and protectionism have a lot in common. They both use force (either directly or through the power of the law) to enrich someone else at your involuntary expense. If you’re forced to pay $20 an hour to an [...]