The New World’s Declaration of Independence from the Old ^51.7%

Compact - By James Vaughn - 7/3/2026, 11:27 AM

Hasty Generalization 22.4% - Optimism Bias 16.3% - Overconfidence Bias 13.1%

A quarter of a millennium ago, the New World declared its independence from the old one. This was not a matter of geography, but of society and history. This New World—the world of modern freedom—had been developing in the West for several centuries, but its historical trajectory was global from the beginning. By the later eighteenth... more