The death of Nobel Prize winner Robert A. Mundell at age 88 has brought forth much discussion about his work and legacy.  Most of this disc...

 So this is about the now getting to be passe topic of what will happen to inflation this year, with Larry Summers having gone out of his wa...

 Well, as we increasingly understand how environmentally damaging producing beef is, quite aside from lots of other issues, the proper issue...

 Protesters trashed windows at the Oregon State Historical Society and left this graffiti:  Credit: Willamette Weekly

 Yes, President Biden has bitten the bullet to remove US troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack that triggered o...

 I doubt this will surprise anybody, aside from those who might have hoped that Dems retaking formal control of both houses of Congress, if ...

 So, Philip Mountbatten, born Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbutg-Glucksburg, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom, and ...

A defense of Weber's Protestant Ethic thesis from the 1940s by Ephraim Fischoff makes the plausible argument that critics -- and many su...

 I am not a fan of rational expectations, hence the quotation marks around "rational" in the subject head here.  Nevertheless I ha...

Following up on my last post , I was searching for coverage of Ronald Reagan's infamous "strapping young buck" comment from 19...

 One should probably not get too optimistic yet, although I have been getting quite worried about it, but a report in today;s New York Times...

The story has been told that Martin Luther invented the doctrine of the "calling" and that John Calvin ("my friends call me...

Or if you prefer, "bin Miriam," although no way he would have ever been called that in his life, but near as I know "Yeshua b...

 Yes, this 25-year deal is a big deal, just recently signed and not getting much attention in the US media.  Juan Cole has called it the mos...

 The who?  Never heard of them?  Or never heard from them? More like the latter. After all they have not been called "Silent" for ...