Why Asian Maritime Supremacy Collapsed (14th–17th Centuries)
The Danger of Anti-Trade Ideology Destroying Wealth, Prosperity, and Power For over a millennium, the world’s greatest maritime trading system was not European but Asian. From China and Japan through Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent, dense networks of ports, merchants, shipbuilders, financiers and navigators generated unprecedented wealth, urbanisation, and cultural exchange. Yet between the…
The Retreat of Climate Alarmism
From 1989 to 2020, we were repeatedly told that global warming was man-made, driven almost entirely by our CO₂ emissions, and that unless drastic action was taken, catastrophe would be inevitable. Early warnings go back even further: in the 1950s, scientists cautioned Congress that the Arctic could become ice-free within 25–50 years. But the 1970s…
Linguistic Diffusion Delusions
It strikes me that the Out-of-India thesis, which dismantles the Steppe-based Proto-Indo-European (PIE) model, parallels the outdated assumptions that still dominate debates on the origins of English. The Few and the Many In both the Aryan Invasion/Migration model and the standard “Anglo-Saxon origins” model, a small group supposedly arrives speaking an alien language which the…
Nick Collins 