The Political Power of Bad Ideas

The title of your book is the political power of bad ideas. What's interesting and what got me into this area of interest to begin with was kind of the era that we have American prohibition, right around World War I. So you get prohibitions in countries like the Russian Empire under the Tsars in Iceland and Norway,. You get it in vast swaths of colonial Africa and India, you get it in the Ottoman Empire and sort of secular Turkey.