Juan Cole today http://www.juancole.com has posted ten items of good news from the Muslim world, which, with one exception, have been large...

My posting has become less and less frequent over recent months because of heckling from one of my co-bloggers. A communal blog is sort of l...

So, for something light on the last day of the decade during which we have said "two thousand one" and "two thousand nine...

In his closing remarks in The Economist debate on European vacations, Professor Robert J. Gordon once again invoked the bogus lump-of-lab...

Monday was the 10th of Muharram in the lunar Islamic calendar, which slides by 10-11 days per Gregorian solar year, which is celebrated by S...

So a member in good standing of the Nigerian economic and political elite contacts the US embassy in Yemen. He says his son has gone off th...

The first decade of the New Millenium saw the state of Tasmania, Australia reach third world status. Hundreds of thousands of hectares of n...

While the US frittered away much of the stimulus on throwing money at banks, the Chinese actually created much more capacity. Business Week...

I have to begin by saying that I appreciate the very civil tone adopted by Rachel Cleetus and UCS. It almost doesn’t feel like the interne...

Some say one reason we are seeing so little commentary on the end of the decade is that nobody knows what to call it. Is it the Aughties, t...

There is an old saying that there are two things one should not look too closely at: the making of sausages and the passing of laws. In the...

Given the anti-intellectualism of today, maybe this is the answer for high tuition. Mill, John Stuart. 1848. Principles of Political Economy...

WSJ: "The two-week Copenhagen conference appeared set to end with no agreement at all, until last-minute bargaining among leaders from ...

Gordon: "To engage in this debate in December 2009 requires that we play a fantasy game..." It is fitting that Professor Gordon a...

[Continued from ‘ Bernanke’s Saving’s Glut Hypothesis. Contradiction Number One '] In his March 2005 musings [1] on the reasons for a s...