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Communism in The Last of Us
A community organised on collective principles after the collapse of the state, described by its members in exactly those terms and working - for now[…]
Trade Restrictions Raise Chicken Prices in House of the Dragon
A blockade drives up the price of food in the city. Fifty-nine seconds in which a political decision made elsewhere turns into a price a[…]
Rent Seeking in Succession
Effort is spent not on making anything but on capturing a share of what already exists - positioning, lobbying and manoeuvring for a transfer rather[…]
The Principal-Agent Problem in Succession
An owner tries to get subordinates to act in the owner's interest, and discovers the ordinary problem of not being able to see what they[…]
Homer Simpson Says Communism Works in Theory
Homer offers the most common thing anyone says about communism - that it works in theory - and the joke is that he has no[…]
Religious Reformation in Game of Thrones
A religious movement that the crown thought it could use becomes a political actor in its own right, with its own courts, its own armed[…]
Fidel Castro on The Simpsons Calls Communism Mumbo Jumbo
A cartoon Castro, in private, dismisses the ideology his state is built on. Fourteen seconds, and entirely about the gap between official doctrine and the[…]
Phillip from The Americans Talks Up the USA versus the Soviet Union
A Soviet intelligence officer living undercover in the United States says, briefly and almost unwillingly, that life is better here. Twenty-eight seconds, and the whole[…]
Communism in The Hunger Games
Panem's districts each produce one thing and see almost none of it. The Capitol consumes what the districts make, and the arrangement is presented as[…]
Squashing Protests in The Hunger Games
Peacekeepers move in on a crowd in District 11 after a gesture of solidarity at the Games. The response is immediate, public and disproportionate -[…]