Anybody confused by recent economic reports is not alone. The BEA has just reported a totally unexpected decline in real GDP for the first ...

 So, Russia has stopped selling natural gas to Bulgaria and Poland because they refuse to pay for it in rubles, but they both say that they ...

It’s nowhere near as expensive as it sounds, and much more humane: offer every Russian soldier who defects $100,000 and the right to settle ...

  Mayer May was born in Bavaria in 1848 and immigrated to the United States in 1869 when he was 21 years old. Bavaria had universal military...

 Happy Earth Day! Yes, today is the 53rd Earth Day.  I participated in the first one, when it was held in Madison, Wisconsin on April 22, 19...

Rabbi Mayer May Sandwichman's maternal great-grandfather, Rabbi Mayer May , was rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in Portland, Oregon fr...

As the crow flies, it is around 200 kilometers from Michilimakinac, where Kandiaronk's Wyandot people settled in 1671, when he was aroun...

 This is not news, but yet again we see the old phenomenon of people whining a lot when something gets worse but then saying nothing when it...

 I have just learned from Louis-Philippe Rochon that Alain Parguez has died.  He was a French economist long based at the University of Besa...

I have always enjoyed chapter 10 of Friedrich Hayek's Road to Serfdom --  "Why the worst get on top." Always referring to the...

McCulloch, J. R. (John Ramsay). Outlines of political economy : being a republication of the article upon that subject contained in the Edin...

Two weeks ago  Back in 2011 a hunch about Charles Dickens and Edward Carleton Tufnell led me to the discovery of what I surmised might be th...

 It is always annoying to have to admit one has been wrong.  But I was among those who a year ago or so was going along with those who argue...

In previous posts, I discussed the Senate confirmation hearings plagiarism by Keisha Russell of a Washington Post column by Marc Thiessen a...

The grinning mug on the right of the YouTube Fox News screen above is Allen C. Guelzo, a historian of the Civil War and biographer of Abraha...