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( This is a repost of a review written in 2008 ) Neal Stephenson's trilogy, The Baroque Cycle , is a must read if you are interested ...

Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a post called " The Great Depression Reenactor " about former White House Economic Adviser an...

Random happenstance led me to read two articles today that have connections in ways I wouldn't have otherwise noticed and both articles ...

In 1936, the country was still in the stranglehold of the Great Depression, and despite billions of dollars of government largesse, (largely...

What follows comes from the private journal of a man close to the president who, when confronted with the reality of the man, looked on in f...

Having done all she can to bring about a country-wide reenactment of the Great Depression, President Obama's chairman of the Council of ...

In " Scalia Was Right " in today's WSJ, James Taranto discusses how Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia predicted the 9th Cir...

I've asked myself this question a number of times in the past year. When do you suppose the citizens of imperial Rome first realized tha...

It seems that foreign observers often have keener insights about the fundamental American nature and sense-of-life than do Americans themsel...