One of the most interesting of Richard Weiss' Letters From Beyond the Age of the Market State (number nine in most collections) is the one in which he reflects on the importance of the Obama Presidential victory in 2009. Weiss' letters were regarded for some time by literary critics as...

One of the most interesting features of the period 2007-08 for historians was the way in which three of the main architects of the illegal Iraq war were removed from office. Blair in the UK, facing increasing disapproval ratings in polls decided to hand over parliamentary leadership. Howard in Australia,...

Today I'm citing one of my favourite passages from chapter 15 of Richard Weiss' History of the Market State. It shows Weiss again dropping into that archaic personalised mode of expression that has made his work so controversial. Unlike Shakespeare, Weiss had no reason to transform his grief and blasted...

2055 was a year that celebrated the 50th anniversary of the development by UNESCO of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.

Without much fanfare, this remarkable instrument had introduced into global discussions on health care and medicines policy a 'social responsibility' principle (in article 14.2.(a)). This encouraged (the...

Richard Weiss, in discussing the US election of 2052, after noting that his own health is failing, makes a considerable digression from analysing the usual run of intrigues, scandals, demands for resignation and withdrawal from war whose political prominence had so characteristically clouded and hampered the systematic development of policy...

The discussion of the United States (US) election of 2052, the center-piece of Chapter 17 of Weiss' History of the Market State, has been justly famed for its reproduction of the famous 'defense' by Virginia Sawer. Sawer was Director for a time of various research institutes involved in construction of...

Richard Weiss' History of the Market State devotes a full chapter (chapter 17) to the 2052 election in what was then known as the United States (US). Weiss views this election as beginning of the end for the market state as that close alliance between government and international business interests...

One of the most poignant of Richard Weiss' chapters in his monumental History of the Market State describes the United States election of 2008. In the classic chapter 15 entitled "The Turning Point", Weiss' writing is laced with both irony and compassion as he details how a nation still proud...

Last night I decided to re-read one of my favourite classical historians of the market-state era. Richard Weiss' work is not as commonly read now as it once was, but in many ways is best compared to Tacitus, Plutarch and Thucydides who also being staunch opponents of tyranny and oppression,...