The British invented the modern state, and those thinkers didn’t get together so

The British invented the modern state, and those thinkers didn’t get together so much as work in a market computation trying to solve the problem of post-medieval modernity – and return to greco-roman levels of civilization. The Founders and Niceans only managed to codify it all. https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1549078829083287553