Category Archives: history
Valkyrie
A Film Review By James Bowman My first impression of Valkyrie — starring, as everyone knows, Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg — is how unexpectedly not-awful it was.
Those Odd Atheist Bus-Slogans
British atheists have paid to have buses carry advertisements saying: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” Professor of Atheism Richard Dawkins, a geneticist by … Continue reading
Get Over It: New Deal Didn't Do the Job
“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.”
Sound like Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, or perhaps another exasperated Republican stalwart, lamenting President Barak Obama’s inclination this week to try to spend our way out of the recession? Continue reading
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Was There Ever a Default on U.S. Treasury Debt?
As the bailouts in the current bust inexorably mount, financed in rapidly increasing U.S. government debt, one might wonder whether a default on Treasury debt is imaginable. In the course of history, did the U.S. ever default on its debt? Well, yes. Continue reading
Keeping Cool with Coolidge
by Ryan L. Cole On this day, 76 years ago, Calvin Coolidge died at the age of 60. Shortly before his life ended and the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt began, Coolidge reportedly told a friend, “I feel I no longer … Continue reading
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Francis P. Church’s editorial, “Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” was an immediate sensation, and went on to became one of the most famous editorials ever written. It first appeared in the The New York Sun in 1897, and was reprinted annually until 1949 when the paper went out of business. Continue reading
