Back in the beginning of the Christmas season, I wrote about the way the gospel Christmas narratives “roll the credits” by giving genealogical tables that link Jesus to Jewish history. In contemplating Christmas, we should never forget that the first Christmas was first and foremost a Jewish event. Mary, Joseph, the innkeeper, the shepherds, the […]

Back in the beginning of the Christmas season, I wrote about the way the gospel Christmas narratives “roll the credits” by giving genealogical tables that link Jesus to Jewish history. In contemplating Christmas, we should never forget that the first Christmas was first and foremost a Jewish event. Mary, Joseph, the innkeeper, the shepherds, the […]

The Blizzard of 2010 has crippled the glamorous borough of Queens; thankfully, I was visiting family outside the city when the snow fell and have now retreated to my rural retreat in the rolling Dutchess County hunt country.  There is plenty of snow up here, but we haven’t had to cope with the horrors the […]

The plutocracy is trying to neuter efforts to clamp down on tax evasion.

The legacy of American jurisprudence recognizes no contradiction between liberty and wealth—at least not yet.

With the November elections just around the corner, the Washington Post is reporting that the Obama Administration is scrambling for ways to boost America’s dismal job numbers—without busting the budget. Here are two low-cost options they ought to try: immigration reform and Federal R&D spending reform.

A supporter of the Iraq War reckons the costs of “small wars”.

There is no consensus about what plutocracy and democracy mean, or how they interact to shape 21st-century American politics.

As went the 19th-century family farm, so goes the 20th-century homeowners’ dream.

How do we explain the puzzling weakness of liberal populism?