Our Precious Market Forces Tromped

While Global Britain ushers in its new Golden Age by closing libraries, demanding greater respect for statues, and ordering universities to give racism a chance, certain lower realms are hastening their inevitable economic demise by distributing merchandise free of charge. Research by the International Institute of Social History has been compiled into a book called Amsterdam and the History of Slavery, which is being most un-entrepreneurially given away to the denizens of that city. Though one hates to judge before all the facts are known, it looks suspiciously like an attempt to educate people without charging them any fees, and thus a rather dangerous and irresponsible gamble. Of course, if a nation's prosperity is shown to be linked with racism and slavery, all plucky English patriots will demand more slavery and more racism; but it remains as yet unclear whether the city of Spinoza is culturally advanced enough to perform a similar feat of logic.