One of my admittedly arcane little hobbies is to discover behavior in our avowedly secular society here in 21st-century America that looks, feels and quacks not like a duck, but like what in earlier ages would have been recognized as obviously religious in character.When I describe a behavior as religious in character I mean something […]

How America's cheap money addiction is inflating the next bubble and undermining faith in government.

I have taken up space in the electronic ether twice before on the general subject of Libya: once on March 22, just days after President Obama ordered a cruise missile attack on Tripoli, and again on August 16, when I raised the prospect of revenge killings on a large scale and what that might portend […]

“It is not just a dangerous escalation. This is part of a pattern of dangerous and reckless behavior by the Iranian government”, said President Barack Obama recently. Visibly angry and frustrated, Obama pledged that his Administration would take steps to ensure that Iran “pays a price.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton branded the most recent […]

Austria-Hungary and the Soviet Union both lost empries. What can we learn from how they coped?

America's system of checks and balances usually works well, but not when it comes to fixing the Federal budget.

Millionaire Wall Streeters, media mavens and corporate titans make for unlikely populists.

What So Proudly We Hail is more than just a memorial to a bygone American era; it's a handbook for recovering endangered civic virtues.

If you expect the worst from people, they'll often oblige.

Alexander Del Mar's view on the origins of money were revolutionary for the 19^th century. Why have so few people heard of him?