December 07, 2012
The Birth of American Finance
How Alexander Hamilton and a Swiss anti-Federalist created our country's capitalist system.
The New Republic | November 7, 1914
January 11, 2013
Excess Baggage—The Voluminous Diaries of Charles Isherwood
Liberation: Diaries: 1970-1983
I AM A camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking,” says the willfully neutral narrator of Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin. “Some day all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.” Just so, but it had to be cut and collated too, as the rest of Herr Issyvoo’s tightly structured masterpiece went on to demonstrate. Indeed, what genius Isherwood had was a genius for brevity. His best novels are all short—and >>> Full Review
January 10, 2013
Paperwork, in all its banality, is also an agent of evil and change.
January 03, 2013
It's even worse than any 101 class you took in college.
December 26, 2012
The Testament of Mary is a first-person novella, but it is also an argument about the contingent nature of the Christian tradition.
December 24, 2012
A Christmas Story: the history of the commodification of Christmas.
December 21, 2012
Around the World in Five Hundred Pages.
December 20, 2012
In Robert O Self's view, the 1970s culture war was central to the decade's political struggles.
December 19, 2012
Though South Korea has enormous strategic importance, it's neighbors get nearly all the coverage.
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October 18, 2012
How Many Constitutions Can Liberals Have?
The strange theory of twelve constitutions in one.
October 18, 2012
The Mormon Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
How the revelation to Joseph Smith led to Bain Capital.
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