287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History

2357.26 - 2379.63 Sean Carroll

So the wonderfully ambitious, audacious question you want to ask is, can you go back into the historical record, look at where the Spanish were in control, where they weren't, and compare that to what things look like today? I mean, it would not be super surprising if the answer were, there's no relation. It's been hundreds of years since this has happened, but that's not exactly what we find.