Big Capital has perfected what might be called the art of perception management: through precision-targeted advertising and algorithmic manipulation on social media, wealthy interests can now create ...

The dictature set up in Jugoslavia last fortnight by King Alexander and General Petar Zivkovitch, Commander of the Royal Guards (TIME, Jan. 14) assumed, last week, the powers of Absolutism ...

Politically, Scotland became a hub for Jacobite supporters of the deposed Stuart dynasty, who sought to impose absolutism on England. Strategically, the Royal Navy was forced to defend the Scottish ...

In the first nine days of his return to the White House, Donald Trump has done and said a great many shocking things. The four most dangerous are his pardons of the January 6 insurrectionists (which I ...

Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, was a significant figure in early 18th-century France, best known for serving as the Regent of ...

Yet for all the excess and absolutism associated with the reigns ... Scientists sought – and often received – royal patronage, in the hope of presenting their discoveries at court.

Absolutism belonged to a pre-political era, an early stage compared to totalitarianism, to the degree that its perceptions of the State and of society revolved around the preservation of the royal ...