Who Cares About You?
During my student days at a UCLA economics department faculty/graduate student coffee hour in the 1960s, I was chatting with Professor Armen Alchian, probably the greatest microeconomic theory economist of the 20th century. I was trying to impress Alchian with my...
News From Around the South 9/23 to 9/30
MISSISSIPPI: African American Voters Sue Over Jim Crow Election Law Mississippi voters will be choosing a governor and other statewide offices in November under a unique set of election rules that date to the 19th century. A federal lawsuit by four African-American...
Brazen Acts of Corrpution
Last week, media outlets reported the existence of a whistleblower complaint filed with the inspector general of the intelligence community against President Donald Trump. The IC encompasses all civilian and military employees and contractors who work for the federal...
Women Edited Out of Civil War
Statues of men in uniform, Union and Confederate, astride their big horses, still dot the landscape of the North and the South: Brave men, no doubt, but where were the women during those bloody years? Consider not just what women suffered during the Civil War—bad...
Lynch Law, Anyone?
We can’t seem to have a news event (and everything that happens in our capital city is a capital-E event these days) without the searing cry in the background, drowning out all other discourse: “Impeach! Impeach!” You might call it an echo of the old...Obiter Dicta
War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. Read More
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