“... Sergey Brin, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella) and US-born college dropout (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg). Companies founded or run by such men are the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh most valuable in the world. Their combined value is $20.94 trillion – one sixth of the entire world economy.Let’s begin in medias res. In the spring ...”

“... as concomitant with but not inevitably subservient to that of the young United States: 1776 might mark the founding of the US, but he claims it also marked the declaration of independence of another ‘empire’ two thousand miles away – the Lakota Sioux. A former farming people from the Missouri River valley, the Lakota had started a series of explorations ...”