…years from now say about what was going on in 2022? How close will today’s scholars and thinkers come to getting it right? In a time when the greatest existential…

…UVa climatologist and great critic and rival of his, Michael Mann, agreed with that assessment of him in the obituary.  Mann also agreed that the “strident” and “battling” public image…

…trains carrying freight and passengers. These trains drawn by steam-powered locomotives could cover great distances in one day. Soon, powerful, swift, steamships would sail the seas. Soon, the world would…

…the case in The Great Illusion, first published in 1909, that the costs of a war among the industrial powers were so great that they would deter their governments from engaging…

A Tale of Two Recoveries podcast from the Roosevelt Institute compares the recoveries between now and the Great Recession. What’s Changed since the Great Recession? The shifts in economic policy…

…contribute to the GOP obtaining a majority in the House of Representative for the first time since the Great Depression – but no recession. By far the biggest episode occurred…

…beyond the abstractions of economics, politics and the immensity of the Soviet carceral state, introducing us to people, places and personal narratives. This is great history and great history writing….

…P. Kennedy, the US ambassador to Great Britain convinced the Jewish film companies to stand down, arguing that American would support an ‘English war’ but not a ‘Jewish war.’ An…

…McCloskey, although she (Abby) came to it independently.  This greatly understates the importance of what McCloskey did.  It is no great insight that Keynes, the author of Essays in Persuasion, was…

…challenges and ask you how parking explains them. Sounds good. Let’s do it. Great. How does parking affect homelessness? Well, parking is expensive to build. So, if you require that…