This post is a commentary on a classic essay by Charles Tilly, “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime,” which appeared in the 1985 book Bringing the State Back In. Here’s a PDF of the original chapter. His essay is a riff on an aphorism he developed earlier: the state makes war and war makes the state. There’s … Continue reading The State as Organized Crime
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 