Hyperpowers Fail Without Diversity
They may have used corpses to fill moats and poured molten silver into the eyes and ears of their enemies, but Amy Chua still thinks the Mongols were a tolerant people, and that their tolerance led to the supremacy of their empire. “I know what you’re thinking,” she joked with the crowd at The Actors’ Gang in Culver City. “This woman thinks the Mongols were tolerant?” Chua, a Yale Law School professor, explained herself: the Mongols, along with a select few civilizations throughout human history, managed to become hyperpowers – …
