...from 200 years ago: "The increase of trade and commerce opened a boundless extent to luxury:—the splendour of luxurious enjoyment in...

Why then is it that no existing society, nor society that ever had existence, has arrived at this point of time, considering that in all tim...

In 1995 I launched the TimeWork Web, which was a "research site" for investigating the history, theory, desirability, practicality...

 Where I am the Third Day of Christmas is just finishing with the news that Grinch Trump has ended his own brief War on Christmas and is sig...

How it started (Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1821): T HE PROGRESS OF THIS INCREASING CAPITAL WOULD ,  in established societies ,  BE MARKED BY T...

 This morning’s New York Times offers a panel discussion on the question of who should get vaccinated against Covid first.  Broadly speakin...

 So the Congress struggled for months after the House passed a $3.3 trillion followup Covid relief bill, which Senate Majority Leader McConn...

 Or maybe not. So recently there has been a lot of buzz that we may be seeing a variety of speculative bubbles in the US and indeed world ec...

 I do not know, but it is on the surface at least surprising. AMLO is the nickname of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the President of Mexico s...

The best can be said about a possible fiscal stimulus in the face of a renewed Covid-19 surge that is dragging the economy down as many area...

 Matt Yglesias has an excellent retrospective on the absurd reversals over mask usage that arose in the early stages of the pandemic.  You ...

  On March 15, 2019 a gunman opened fire on worshipers at two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques, killing 50 and wounding around as many. Sur...

 This has been gradually developing for about the last quarter of a century or so.  While there was some of this going on before, it took of...

 I have already posted about the nomination of Janet Yellen to be Treasury Secretary, a historic first and most duly deserved.  She is great...

 It occurs to me that our current president has engaged in a rather large number of actions that are unprecedented by any other president, a...