“Settlements far from the Mounties’ reach had more widows than widowers, suggesting unusually high adult male death rates”
To demonstrate the role of the Mounties, I compared settlements that in the late...
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“Where Mounties were present, self-justice was rare. Canadians, on the whole, developed a less violent culture”
Steven Pinker, in his book “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” hypothesized that the...