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March 2019

• DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME COMES TO STONEHENGE. 2019-03-12
• TRIED AND TRUE POLICIES. 2019-03-11
• LOOKING BACK AT THE QUESTION: ” WHAT WOULD KEYNES DO”? 2019-03-10
• A JUXTAPOSITION. 2019-03-09
• PROFESSOR KRUGMAN ON FISCAL POLICY DURING THE TEN YEARS AFTER THE LEHMAN BANKRUPTCY. 2019-03-08 · 1 comment
• AGAINST AUSTERITY (COMMENTS). 2019-03-07
• FINDING MORE AT STONEHENGE. 2019-03-05
• WHERE SOME OF THE STONES FOR STONEHENGE CAME FROM. 2019-03-04 · 1 comment
• A FAMILY STORY ABOUT BANK RUNS. 2019-03-01 · 1 comment

February 2019

• WHEN BERNANKE DID NOT FOLLOW BAGEHOT. 2019-02-28
• WALTER BAGEHOT’S ADVICE TO CENTRAL BANKERS FROM 1873. 2019-02-27 · 3 comments
• TOOZE ON THE LEHMAN BANKRUPTCY—PAGE 177. 2019-02-26
• JOLABOKAFLOD—“CRASHED”. 2019-02-25
• “COMPLACENCY, AFFABILITY, AND CONDESCENSION TO ALL”. 2019-02-04
• NOMADS AND FARMERS (COMMENT). 2019-02-03
• KILLING OPENLY. 2019-02-02
• A CIA HANDBOOK ON POLITICAL ASSASSINATION. 2019-02-01

January 2019

• DIPLOMATIC MURDERS—TWELVE YEARS LATER. 2019-01-31
• MY FATHER’S THEORY OF WHERE MY ANCESTORS CHOSE TO LIVE. 2019-01-30
• HOW DID THE YAMNAYA —WHO WERE LATE ARRIVALS— PREVAIL? 2019-01-29 · 1 comment
• MASS MIGRATION—THE YAMNAYA. 2019-01-28
• MIGRATION OR THE SPREAD OF CULTURE? 2019-01-27
• ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES BEING MADE RIGHT NOW. 2019-01-26
• JOLABOKAFLOD—ANCIENT DNA. 2019-01-25 · 1 comment
• TWELVE YEARS OF COMPLAINING ABOUT THE WAY WE NOMINATE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. 2019-01-23
• THE SPORT OF TEJO, WHERE SCORING IS DONE WITH GUNPOWDER. 2019-01-22 · 1 comment
• THE USEFULNESS OF CURSE TABLETS. 2019-01-17
• THE DISAPPOINTMENTS AND SUCCESSES OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS. 2019-01-14
• “WHY 2018 WAS THE BEST YEAR IN HUMAN HISTORY.” 2019-01-11

December 2018

• GLOTTOPHOBIE. 2018-12-31
• HOW BAD WAS THE LONG WINTER? THE PHOTOGRAPH. 2018-12-01

November 2018

• THE LONG WINTER AND PRESERVING CIVILIZED MANNERS. 2018-11-30
• AN ANCIENT DANISH PRIVY. 2018-11-29
• WHAT’S LEFT TO LEARN—POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM. 2018-11-28
• ADAM SMITH ON THE POTATO—“STRONG MEN AND BEAUTIFUL WOMEN”. 2018-11-27
• ADAM SMITH AND THE POTATO. 2018-11-26
• AN UPDATE ON THE HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE POTATO. 2018-11-25
• A THANKSGIVING STORY FROM 2008. 2018-11-22
• THANKSGIVING 2018. 2018-11-21
• AN UPDATED HISTORY OF THE GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE. 2018-11-19
• LEARNING BY WATCHING PARENTS DOING. 2018-11-17
• BRING YOUR PARENT TO WORK DAY. 2018-11-16
• TWO MOSAICS FROM A CLASSICAL LATRINE. 2018-11-07
• OLDEST INTACT SHIPWRECK FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BLACK SEA. 2018-11-06
• THE VIKING TAR INDUSTRY. 2018-11-05
• TAR AND VIKINGS. 2018-11-04

October 2018

• THE COMMERCIAL SUCCESS OF THE FIRST FOLIO IN THE 18TH CENTURY. 2018-10-30
• “LET’S GO TO THE TRANS-LUX AND HISS ROOSEVELT.” 2018-10-28
• FAT CATS AND THE NEW YORKER. 2018-10-27
• A FRENCH PROPOSAL TO PROSCRIBE DISCRIMINATION BASED ON PRONUNCIATION. 2018-10-24
• THE SUCCESS OF A MORE KEYNESIAN POLICY? 2018-10-21
• iPHONES AND LIGHT. 2018-10-19
• AS WITH LIGHT, A LOT OF QUALITY CHANGES ARE NOT MEASURED. 2018-10-18
• THE PRICE OF ILLUMINATION IN LUMENS 2018-10-17
• NORDHAUS ON THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF LIGHT. 2018-10-16
• NORDHAUS ON WHO BENEFITS FROM TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. 2018-10-15
• ROMER’S VIVID WRITING ABOUT MACROECONOMICS. 2018-10-11
• WILLIAM NORDHAUS AND PAUL ROMER HAVE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS. 2018-10-10
• WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO BE A DIVE BOMBER PILOT? 2018-10-05
• THE ONLY SUPERIOR AMERICAN WEAPON AT THE START OF WORLD WAR II. 2018-10-04
• THE DIVE BOMBERS AT MIDWAY. 2018-10-03

September 2018

• A HORSE THIEF’S SKULL AND THE SARAH BERNHARDT ROOM. 2018-09-25
• WOLF TREES AND THE MARKET FOR TIMBER. 2018-09-18
• A WOLF TREE. 2018-09-16
• ENFORCING THE LAW IN NEW YORK IN 1968. 2018-09-08
• A FORESHADOWING FROM 2007 OF THE FATE OF THE VENEZUELAN ECONOMY. 2018-09-06
• COULD 1000 US MARINES CIRCA WWII DEFEAT 20,000 SPARTANS? 2018-09-05
• WHY I THINK THAT THE DISCOVERY OF AGRICULTURE WAS A GOOD THING. 2018-09-01

August 2018

• “HIDDEN MEDIEVAL DOOR LEADING TO SMUGGLERS’ CAVES DISCOVERED UNDERNEATH SCOTTISH CASTLE.” 2018-08-31
• SHADES OF BLACK—MARS BLACK AND IVORY BLACK. 2018-08-23
• “MAMIHLAPINATAPEI” AND “GIGIL”. 2018-08-22 · 1 comment
• SELLING ICE TO PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW WHAT COLD IS. 2018-08-21
• HYPOCOGNITION 2018-08-20
• “CURSUS” MONUMENTS FOUND BY AERIAL ARCHAEOLOGY. 2018-08-19
• HOT WEATHER IS LEADING TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES. 2018-08-18
• THE PLAYERS. 2018-08-14
• MARY JANE’S TRILOGY: THE LIVES OF SHAKESPEARE—- THIS FALL AT THE PLAYERS CLUB. 2018-08-13
• A SUBWAY MAP OF ROMAN ROADS. 2018-08-04

July 2018

• CONSTABLE AND CLOUDS. 2018-07-31
• CONSTABLE PAINTED WHAT HE SAW—THE WEATHER. 2018-07-30
• A HYPERINFLATION PREDICTION FOR VENEZUELA FROM TEN YEARS AGO. 2018-07-25
• HIDDEN MESSAGES ON ANCIENT GREEK VASES. 2018-07-20

March 2018

• A VIKING WOMAN WARRIOR AFTER ALL. 2018-03-13
• “DUCK, DUCK, GRAY GOOSE” AND THE PERSISTENCE OF FOLKWAYS. 2018-03-12
• ANOTHER MURDER WHICH WILL PROBABLY NOT BE A DIPLOMATIC INCIDENT. 2018-03-11
• “DUCK, DUCK, GRAY GOOSE” AND POLITICAL THEORY. 2018-03-10 · 1 comment

February 2018

• TALEB VERSUS PINKER. 2018-02-24
• ARE HISTORICAL BOOKS ABOUT PROGRESS “COMFORT HISTORY?” 2018-02-23
• THE REJECTION OF THE WHIG THEORY OF HISTORY. 2018-02-22
• ANOTHER USE FOR PHILOSOPHY. 2018-02-19 · 1 comment
• ‘OUMUAMUA. 2018-02-18
• WAS IT A GREAT MISTAKE FOR HUMANS TO BECOME FARMERS? 2018-02-12
• AN INSTANCE WHERE FICTION HAS REPLACED HISTORY. 2018-02-07

January 2018

• HOW BUILDING A SET OF STEPS ILLUSTRATES “A FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTY OF THE UNIVERSE”. 2018-01-09 · 1 comment
• MY EFFORTS TO REPLACE A SET OF STEPS. 2018-01-08 · 1 comment
• WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO BUILD A SET OF STEPS. 2018-01-07
• SOME PROPOSED EXPLANATIONS FOR WHY IT TOO SO LONG TO INVENT ROPE. 2018-01-05
• WHAT IF I HAD HAD TO INVENT ROPE? 2018-01-04
• WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG TO INVENT ROPE? 2018-01-03

December 2017

• “NOBODY, NOT EVEN THE RAIN, HAS SUCH SMALL HANDS”. 2017-12-30 · 1 comment
• “WESTRON WYNDE” AND WESTERN LITERATURE. 2017-12-28
• “AMID ALL THE POETIC RICHES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, FOUR SHORT LINES STAND OUT.” 2017-12-27
• THE RESILIENCE OF FRUITCAKE. 2017-12-25
• PALAU—A NATION GOVERNED BY BASEBALL PLAYERS. 2017-12-21
• A CHILD’S OBSESSION WITH BRAID. 2017-12-19
• PEDLARS AND HOLY CARDS—A REMINISCENCE. 2017-12-12
• PEDLARS AND HOLY CARDS. 2017-12-11 · 1 comment
• THE HISTORY OF PEDLARS—CELESTINE. 2017-12-10
• SOME OF THE RANKINGS BY WINS ABOVE REPLACEMENT FOR GENERALS. 2017-12-09
• MONEYBALL COMES TO RANKING GENERALS. 2017-12-08

November 2017

• CHURCHILL’S UNUSUAL ARGUMENT. 2017-11-29
• HISTORY WITH THE HERO AND VILLAIN OFFSTAGE. 2017-11-28
• WHAT WAS AT STAKE AT DUNKIRK. 2017-11-27

May 2017

• BENEVENTUM. 2017-05-05
• VICTOR HUGO AT THE BARRICADES (SPOILER ALERT). 2017-05-03
• FLAVOR NOTES FOR BOG BUTTER. 2017-05-02
• IDENTIFYING ANCIENT DNA IN MUD. 2017-05-01

April 2017

• EFFORTS TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BOG BODIES. 2017-04-30
• THE UNCANNY NATURE OF BOGS. 2017-04-29
• OGDEN NASH AND BASEBALL HISTORY. 2017-04-27
• PLAYING BASEBALL USING 19TH CENTURY RULES. 2017-04-26
• THE OLDEST FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE BEGINS ITS NEW SEASON. 2017-04-25 · 1 comment
• THE ETIQUETTE OF EATING PEAS (COMMENT). 2017-04-21 · 1 comment
• EATING PEAS WITH HONEY (COMMENT). 2017-04-20
• A TRADITIONALIST REMAINS UNCONVINCED (COMMENT). 2017-04-05
• USING THE SINGULAR “THEY” BECAUSE IT’S TRADITIONAL. 2017-04-04

March 2017

• AN ECONOMIST LOOKS AT “THE TROUBLE WITH MACROECONOMICS”. 2017-03-28
• RECONSTRUCTING THE ROOF OF A PALACE IN HERCULANEUM. 2017-03-27
• HETEROPHASIA—IT’S THE PANTHEON THAT HAS A CONCRETE DOME (COMMENT). 2017-03-25
• COMPARING THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION TO A BUSINESS STARTUP. 2017-03-16
• IN PRAISE OF THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. 2017-03-15
• REVISITING THE MESSY ROOMMATE THEORY OF NATO. 2017-03-12
• THE POTATO AND THE FUTURE CONQUEST OF SPACE. 2017-03-10
• UPDATE ON FIRST SLEEP/SECOND SLEEP. 2017-03-09
• THE KILLER FOG OF 1952. 2017-03-05
• TURNER’S LIGHT. 2017-03-04
• THE EFFECT OF GEOGRAPHY ON THE IMPRESSIONISTS. 2017-03-03
• JOE BOB BRIGGS’ BRIEF HISTORY OF THE REDNECK. 2017-03-02

February 2017

• DO MOUNTAINS PRODUCE WARS? 2017-02-28
• THE HISTORICAL RESEARCH BEHIND MONTY PYTHON’S ATTACK BUNNY. 2017-02-13
• GIANT MEDIEVAL ATTACK RABBITS. 2017-02-12
• OCTOMORE—THE WORLD’S MOST HEAVILY PEATED SINGLE MALT. 2017-02-03
• THE BRUICHLADDICH DISTILLERY. 2017-02-02
• “A BRIEF HISTORY OF CASKS, PART ONE” (PINGBACK). 2017-02-01

January 2017

• BEFORE THE “THE WAR ON PIRATES”. 2017-01-31
• PIRATES WHO JUST WANTED TO FIND A PLACE IN THE HIGHER REACHES OF COLONIAL SOCIETY. 2017-01-30
• HAS A SECOND VIKING SETTLEMENT IN NORTH AMERICA BEEN FOUND? 2017-01-29
• WHY THE PARTHENON HAS LASTED FOR CENTURIES. 2017-01-22 · 1 comment
• IN PRAISE OF CONCRETE. 2017-01-21
• THE KARDASHIAN CAPER—ANOTHER MAJOR CRIME COMMITTED BY OLDER PROFESSIONALS. 2017-01-13
• GEORGE WASHINGTON’S IRON SELF CONTROL. 2017-01-09
• THE ANGER OF GEORGE WASHINGTON—THE BATTLE FOR MANHATTAN. 2017-01-08 · 1 comment
• THE ANGER OF GEORGE WASHINGTON—A CABINET MEETING. 2017-01-07
• MICROMETEORIC DUST FROM OUTER SPACE. 2017-01-01

December 2016

• KNIGHTS FIGHTING SNAILS REVISITED. 2016-12-31
• BRUTALISM—IS IT THE OUTSIDE OR THE INSIDE THAT MATTERS MOST? 2016-12-22
• FLYTING. 2016-12-09
• IS THERE DARK MATTER? 2016-12-04

November 2016

• THE POWER OF RAP. 2016-11-28
• REVISITING MY THANKSGIVING POST FROM TEN YEARS AGO.. 2016-11-25
• AN AMERICAN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE. 2016-11-24
• A TREE BIG ENOUGH TO HOLD A BANQUET INSIDE IT. 2016-11-22
• ALES TO MARK IMPORTANT LIFE EVENTS. 2016-11-20 · 1 comment
• RESEARCH SHOWING THAT WE WORK A LOT HARDER THAN OUR ANCESTORS DID. 2016-11-19
• WHAT IS IMPORTANT IF CAMPAIGNS ARE NOT? 2016-11-18
• DO POLITICAL CONSULTANTS MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE?—A CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT. 2016-11-17
• DO POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS MAKE A DIFFERENCE? 2016-11-16
• NATURE DOESN’T RUN ENOUGH ELECTIONS. 2016-11-15
• THE CONTROVERSY AT THE GLOBE—-MAYBE IT WAS REALLY ABOUT THE LIGHTING AFTER ALL. 2016-11-05
• THE CONTROVERSY AT THE GLOBE—PRESERVING THE GLOBE EXPERIENCE. 2016-11-04

October 2016

• MEMORIES OF THE GREENWICH VILLAGE HALLOWEEN PARADE. 2016-10-31
• FERMI PROBLEMS. 2016-10-25
• MORE VINDICATION FOR ULYSSES GRANT. 2016-10-22
• ARE FACES SYMMETRICAL? 2016-10-12
• THE AMBIGUITY OF THE BUDDHA’S FACES. 2016-10-11
• “…LITTLE BOXES MADE OF TICKY TACKY….” 2016-10-10
• A HISTORY OF THE RANCH HOUSE. 2016-10-09

September 2016

• HOPE FOR READING THE SCROLLS AT HERCULANEUM. 2016-09-27
• AN ARGUMENT FOR DIGGING UP EVERY MOUND IN BRITAIN. 2016-09-24
• A PINTEREST BOARD FOR BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY. 2016-09-24
• THE MYSTERIES OF THE TIMBERS AT DURRINGTON WALLS. 2016-09-23
• AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISAPPOINTMENT AT DURRINGTON WALLS. 2016-09-22
• MORE GROSS SCIENCE—ANCIENT POOP. 2016-09-21 · 1 comment
• EVIDENCE THAT AMERICANS NEVER DID TALK POLITICS WITH PEOPLE THEY DISAGREED WITH. 2016-09-17
• SHOULD IT BE A DEBATE OR A PRESS CONFERENCE? 2016-09-16
• A HISTORY OF TELEVISED PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES. 2016-09-15
• DICTEE COMPETITIONS. 2016-09-10
• THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR—ONE TIME WHEN THE LOSING SIDE WROTE THE HISTORY. 2016-09-04
• ULYSSES S. GRANT—-A CIVIL RIGHTS PRESIDENT. 2016-09-03 · 2 comments
• HOW NORTH KOREA OBTAINS TEACHERS BY KIDNAPPING—AN UPDATE. 2016-09-02

August 2016

• LOOKING BACK AT THE SIXTIES—-“NATURE DOESN’T RUN VERY GOOD EXPERIMENTS.” 2016-08-31
• ECONOMIC RESEARCH IN THE LAST 30 YEARS—-MORE DATA; LESS THEORY. 2016-08-30
• CHICAGO—FIRST IN SKYSCRAPERS. 2016-08-29
• A MYTH ABOUT NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS? 2016-08-28
• THE PRECISE WORDS FOR DIFFERENT KINDS OF BOGS. 2016-08-23 · 1 comment
• LOST FOREST WORDS. 2016-08-22
• SUBPUNCTING. 2016-08-21
• LOOKING BACK AT CAT BONDS AND BLACK SWANS. 2016-08-20
• THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THINGS THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN. 2016-08-19
• NOT LOOKING FOR KING ARTHUR. 2016-08-18
• HOW TO TELL IF THE CAUSE OF YOUR TROUBLES IS THE MALOCCHIO. 2016-08-10
• I ASKED MARY JANE ABOUT CURSES. 2016-08-08
• WHY ARE BRITISH CURSES SO CONCERNED WITH PROPERTY? 2016-08-07
• THE BATH CURSE TABLETS. 2016-08-06
• OVER 2000 ROMAN DOCUMENTS FOUND IN BRITAIN IN 40 YEARS (INCLUDING CURSE TABLETS). 2016-08-05
• ROMAN FORM FILES. 2016-08-04
• CHEATING AT THE ORIGINAL OLYMPICS. 2016-08-03

July 2016

• MY ANNUAL RANTS ABOUT OUR PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION PROCEDURES (COMMENT). 2016-07-28
• A STUDY SHOWING KNIGHTS COULD MOVE PRETTY WELL IN THEIR ARMOR. 2016-07-16
• THE BRITISH POMPEII. 2016-07-15
• THE STRANGE WEAPONRY OF GLADIATORS. 2016-07-14
• WOMEN GLADIATORS. 2016-07-13
• HOW GLADIATORS FOUGHT. 2016-07-12
• THE BURIAL MOUNDS AT STONEHENGE. 2016-07-11
• ARCHAEOLOGY WITHOUT DIGGING. 2016-07-10
• A CROWD-FUNDED PROJECT MAKES A FIND ON LINDISFARNE. 2016-07-09
• “THE WORLD IS IN GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM….” 2016-07-07
• BREXIT—THE UNITED KINGDOM TREASURY WAS WRONG ABOUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO INTEREST RATES. 2016-07-01

June 2016

• BREXIT AND EUROPEAN DISUNITY—A CYNICAL VIEW. 2016-06-27
• TWO THEORIES ON WHETHER THE BREXIT POLLS WERE WRONG. 2016-06-26
• DID THE BETTING AT BOOKIES PREDICT BREXIT? 2016-06-25
• BREXIT—A MINSKY MOMENT. 2016-06-24
• WHAT WE KNOW WITH CERTAINTY ABOUT THE FIRST SECOND AFTER THE “BIG BANG”. 2016-06-10
• THE “ENIAC GIRLS”. 2016-06-08
• THE WOMEN OF BLETCHLEY PARK. 2016-06-07
• “THE DEB WHO SANK THE BISMARCK”. 2016-06-06
• THE BUSINESS ACTIVITIES OF THE NEW ROMAN COLONISTS. 2016-06-04
• NEW “DOCUMENTS” FOUND IN ONE OF THE UNDERGROUND RIVERS OF LONDON. 2016-06-03

May 2016

• ST. AUGUSTINE—NEWLY FOUND SERMONS FROM OVER 1500 YEARS AGO. 2016-05-31
• ELIZABETHAN RECORDS THAT WERE “ALMOST UNTOUCHED”. 2016-05-30
• DID THE GENDER OF LATIN WORDS AFFECT THEIR MEANING? 2016-05-20
• THREE PROBLEMS WITH THE BIG BANG THEORY. 2016-05-15
• SUMMARIZING WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE BIG BANG. 2016-05-14
• SUMMARIZING EVIDENCE FOR THE BIG BANG. 2016-05-13
• A BEER PIPELINE IN BRUGES. 2016-05-11
• THE 23RD PSALM—HOW ENGLISH HAS CHANGED IN THE LAST 1000 YEARS. 2016-05-10
• THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD AND ACHILL ISLAND. 2016-05-09
• THE PLAYBOY RIOTS. 2016-05-08
• THE REMOTE ARAN ISLANDS. 2016-05-07

April 2016

• SHAKESPEARE DID NOT WRITE IN OLD ENGLISH. 2016-04-24
• A MODERN TRANSLATION OF SONNET 18 INTO OLD ENGLISH. 2016-04-23
• BANK DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY HAS IMPROVED. 2016-04-22
• DO THE BANK ROBBING TECHNIQUES OF THE 1970’s AND 1980’S STILL WORK? 2016-04-21
• BANK-ROBBING TECHNIQUE IN THE 1870’S. 2016-04-20
• WHEN THE COMMUNIST PARTY FOOLED SARTRE INTO THINKING HE HAD FREE WILL. 2016-04-13

March 2016

• IRISH MOOR MUD—“A 9,000 YEAR-OLD BEAUTY SECRET”. 2016-03-28
• SMALL SAMPLES IN ARCHAEOLOGY. 2016-03-22
• DID CELTIC LANGUAGE AND CULTURE SPREAD FROM IRELAND INTO EUROPE? 2016-03-21
• WERE THE IRISH IN IRELAND BEFORE ANY CELT INVASION? 2016-03-20
• CAPITALISM AND TIME ZONES. 2016-03-19
• SOME WAYS MEN USED TO TELL TIME. 2016-03-18
• REPLACING THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM WITH “BODY AND SOUL”. 2016-03-13
• “THE RUSTLE OF INDEX CARDS”. 2016-03-12
• HOW LINNAEUS INVENTED THE INDEX CARD. 2016-03-11
• THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW BLUE PIGMENT. 2016-03-02

February 2016

• ELECTIONEERING ADVICE IN THE AGE OF CICERO. 2016-02-23
• WHERE WOULD YOU DIG? 2016-02-22 · 1 comment
• DID IT MATTER WHO WAS THE EMPEROR? 2016-02-21
• HOW WICKED WERE THE WICKED EMPERORS? 2016-02-20 · 2 comments
• WHY ROME AND NOT A DIFFERENT ITALIAN CITY? 2016-02-18
• “KNEELING UPON THE KNEES OF MY HEART”. 2016-02-07
• REWORDING LORD ACTON. 2016-02-05
• HENRY VIII AND FOOTBALL HEAD INJURIES. 2016-02-04
• JUDGING THE SUCCESS OF THE CONSTITUTION (COMMENT). 2016-02-01

January 2016

• ONE REASON WHY OUR CONSTITUTION IS SO SUCCESSFUL. 2016-01-31 · 1 comment
• “THIS AGED WOMAN….” 2016-01-29
• WHAT DID QUEEN ELIZABETH THINK OF GRACE O’MALLEY? 2016-01-28
• GRACE O’MALLEY MEETS QUEEN ELIZABETH. 2016-01-27
• MY VIOLENT HERITAGE—VIKINGS AND O’MALLEYS. 2016-01-26 · 3 comments
• PHILIP SIDNEY’S FATHER MEETS GRACE O’MALLEY. 2016-01-25
• GRACE O’MALLEY THREATENS QUEEN ELIZABETH’S REPRESENTATIVE. 2016-01-24
• PUTIN’S OPEN AND NOTORIOUS ROLE IN THE MURDER. 2016-01-23
• HOW TO COMMIT THE OPPOSITE OF A PERFECT CRIME. 2016-01-22
• FINALLY, A JUDGMENT ON AN OPEN AND NOTORIOUS MURDER. 2016-01-21
• “STRIVERS”. 2016-01-20
• YET ANOTHER PLEA FOR CONTESTED CONVENTIONS. 2016-01-17
• UTILITARIANISM BEGAN AS A COMPASSIONATE THEORY. 2016-01-12
• KNIGHTS FIGHTING SNAILS. 2016-01-01

December 2015

• WHY GOLIATH WAS AN UNDERDOG. 2015-12-31
• INVENTING SCIENCE BY INTRODUCING THE WORD “DISCOVERY”. 2015-12-29
• A SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF THE BIG BANG. 2015-12-28
• WHAT IS LANDSCAPE? 2015-12-13
• TIME IMMEMORIAL. 2015-12-10
• THE FIGHT AGAINST INVASIVE SPECIES. 2015-12-09
• MORE DISCOVERIES ABOUT STONEHENGE. 2015-12-08
• THE DISCOVERY OF PRUSSIAN BLUE. 2015-12-06

November 2015

• GIVING THANKS FOR MAGNA CARTA. 2015-11-25
• HENRY’S CHOICE OF GOOD GROUND. 2015-11-24
• OR MAYBE THE FRENCH WERE BLUFFED INTO MOVING FIRST. 2015-11-24
• WAR GAMING AGINCOURT. 2015-11-23
• “SO THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES TURNS OUT TO BE STATIC.”. 2015-11-21
• THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. 2015-11-21
• THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND. 2015-11-20
• THE LIBRARY AT HERCULANEUM. 2015-11-19
• HOW THE WAR BETWEEN CANADA AND DENMARK IS BEING CONDUCTED. 2015-11-18
• THE LONG-RUNNING WAR BETWEEN CANADA AND DENMARK. 2015-11-17 · 2 comments
• IMMIGRANTS BRING A “FRAGMENT” OF THEIR SOCIETY WITH THEM. 2015-11-15 · 1 comment
• WHY THE ITALIAN ACCENTS OF ITALIAN-AMERICANS DIFFER SO MUCH. 2015-11-12
• “MICROACCENTS” IN ITALY. 2015-11-11
• “THE FOODS OF TODAY’S LOWER MIDDLE CLASS ARE THE FOODS OF YESTERDAY’S TYCOONS.” 2015-11-08
• PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES—IF YOU GET RID OF THE MODERATOR, THERE WOULD BE NO MORE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE QUESTIONS. 2015-11-06

October 2015

• AGINCOURT—600 YEARS AND FOUR DAYS AGO. 2015-10-29
• I WISHED SOMEBODY WOULD WRITE A BOOK…. 2015-10-26
• HOW THE PREDICTION CONTEST WAS RUN. 2015-10-24
• “SUPERFORECASTERS”— CAN SOME PEOPLE PREDICT? 2015-10-23
• PUNCTUATION AS AN “ORATORICAL STAGE DIRECTION”. 2015-10-20
• SCORSESE’S “AFTER HOURS”—WHAT NEW YORK WAS LIKE 30 YEARS AGO. 2015-10-19
• THE DETECTIVE STORY WRITER AND THE HISTORIANS. 2015-10-18
• CURRENT THINKING ON THE DEATHS OF THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER. 2015-10-17
• WHAT THE BILL OF ATTAINDER DIDN’T SAY. 2015-10-16
• RECOVERING THE KINGS MISSING FROM THE FACADE OF NOTRE DAME. 2015-10-11
• HOW NERO’S GOLDEN HOUSE INFLUENCED THE RENAISSANCE. 2015-10-04
• HOW THE GOLDEN HOUSE SURVIVED UNDERGROUND. 2015-10-03
• NERO’S GOLDEN HOUSE WAS UNDERFOOT. 2015-10-02
• A DANISH PIRATE QUEEN. 2015-10-01

September 2015

• GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE GETS THE SCOOP ON THE WRIGHT BROTHERS. 2015-09-16
• HOW DID THE VIKINGS GET TO AUSTRALIA? 2015-09-15
• DID THE VIKINGS SPREAD CIVILIZATION TO AUSTRALIA? 2015-09-14
• THE STONEHENGE HIDDEN LANDSCAPE PROJECT. 2015-09-12
• THE DISCOVERY OF SUPERHENGE. 2015-09-11
• PLANNING FOR A WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. 2015-09-10
• HOW THE BALLPOINT KILLED CURSIVE. 2015-09-03
• WHAT HAPPENED TO CURSIVE? 2015-09-02

August 2015

• WORDS SHAKESPEARE INVENTED THAT DIDN’T CATCH ON. 2015-08-24
• NOW YOU CAN EXPERIENCE WHAT THE FIRST FLIGHT WAS LIKE. 2015-08-22
• THE WRIGHT BROTHERS SOLVING THE SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS OF HOW TO FLY. 2015-08-21
• WEDGWOOD—A BUSINESSMAN DOING SCIENCE. 2015-08-20
• TIME AND MOTION STUDY COMES TO BANK ROBBERY. 2015-08-19
• SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS THAT GOES UNRECOGNIZED AS SCIENCE (COMMENT). 2015-08-18 · 1 comment
• THE PERRY MASTODON. 2015-08-17
• FINALLY DIGGING UP THE YORKTOWN MASTODON. 2015-08-16
• WAS THE CHOICE FOR ENGLISH LITERATURE BETWEEN SHAKESPEARE AND BEN JONSON? 2015-08-13 · 1 comment
• ROMULUS—WHAT I HOLD AGAINST GORE VIDAL. 2015-08-11 · 1 comment
• VIDAL VERSUS BUCKLEY. 2015-08-10 · 1 comment
• ROBERT CONQUEST, THE HISTORIAN. 2015-08-08 · 2 comments
• A LIMERICK ABOUT COMMUNISM BY AN HISTORIAN OF COMMUNISM. 2015-08-07 · 1 comment

July 2015

• WHY DECENTRALIZED STATES ARE MORE STABLE. 2015-07-23
• WHAT ITALY’S CHANGES OF GOVERNMENT MEAN (COMMENT). 2015-07-22
• WHY ITALY IS A STABLE STATE. 2015-07-21 · 1 comment
• AN ATTEMPT TO MEASURE INCREASES IN COMPUTER PRODUCTIVITY. 2015-07-19
• CONTROLLING TRAFFIC BY INFORMAL MEANS. 2015-07-17
• WHAT THE MIMES DID. 2015-07-16
• IS POST HOC SOMETIMES EVIDENCE?—THE MIME EXPERIMENT. 2015-07-15
• THE TWO ATTICUS FINCHES. 2015-07-14

June 2015

• AN ARGUMENT FOR ALIEN PLANTS. 2015-06-30
• A KNIGHT TAKING OFF HIS HELMET. 2015-06-23
• THE TOURNAMENT EXPLOITS OF WILLIAM MARSHAL. 2015-06-22
• JOUSTS WERE DIFFERENT FROM TOURNAMENTS. 2015-06-21
• WILLIAM MARSHAL—THE GREATEST KNIGHT. 2015-06-20
• BUILDING SUPPORT FOR MAGNA CARTA. 2015-06-19
• THE GREATNESS OF THE GREAT CHARTER. 2015-06-18
• MAGNA CARTA AND COMMERCE. 2015-06-17
• ENFORCING MAGNA CARTA. 2015-06-16
• MAGNA CARTA—EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY. 2015-06-15
• MY EYE LOOKS AT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE PICTURE. 2015-06-14

May 2015

• WHAT EFFECT DID THE TWO MURDERS HAVE ON SHAKESPEARE? 2015-05-17
• THE TWO MURDERS IN SHAKESPEARE’S HOUSE. 2015-05-16
• SHAKESPEARE’S BIRTHPLACE AMERICA. 2015-05-15 · 1 comment
• THE IMPORTANCE FOR ME OF FREUD AND MARX. 2015-05-14

April 2015

• JOHN LOCKE AND THE USE OF “LIKE” TO REFLECT SURMISE OR APPROXIMATION. 2015-04-22
• A NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATING TECHNIQUE. 2015-04-20
• HOW DID THE VIKING RAIDERS FIND THE MONASTERIES? 2015-04-19
• EVIDENCE THAT SOME VIKING TRADERS MAY HAVE ARRIVED IN IRELAND BEFORE THE RAIDERS. 2015-04-18
• POLITICKING ABOUT BIRTHDAY WISHES FOR GEORGE WASHINGTON. 2015-04-05 · 1 comment
• HOW FANTASY BASEBALL HAS GOTTEN BETTER OVER TIME. 2015-04-03 · 1 comment
• BRITISH TREES THAT ARE HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD. 2015-04-02 · 1 comment

March 2015

• THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE. 2015-03-31 · 1 comment
• A CONTENTION THAT ENGLAND NEEDS MORE FOREST MANAGEMENT BY POLLARDING AND COPPICING. 2015-03-30
• COPPICING. 2015-03-29
• POLLARDING. 2015-03-28 · 1 comment
• ROTISSERIE BASEBALL AND USA TODAY. 2015-03-24
• WHAT TODAY’S HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS KNOW. 2015-03-16 · 2 comments
• CULTURAL LITERACY REVISITED. 2015-03-15 · 1 comment
• LAURA INGALLS WILDER’S BLIZZARD. 2015-03-08
• WHERE DID THE WORD “BLIZZARD” COME FROM? 2015-03-07
• LSMFT—“LORD SAVE MACARTHUR FROM TRUMAN”. 2015-03-01

February 2015

• SCHOOL CLOSINGS BACK IN THE DAY. 2015-02-28
• OVERWHELMING POPULAR SUPPORT FOR GREECE’S NEGOTIATING STRATEGY. 2015-02-17
• AN APPRAISAL OF GREECE’S NEGOTIATING STRATEGY. 2015-02-16
• WHAT DO SCIENTISTS MEAN NOW BY “THE BIG BANG”? 2015-02-14
• COULD THE UNIVERSE HAVE NO BEGINNING AND NO END? 2015-02-14
• THE DIFFICULTY OF ELIMINATING ALTERNATIVE COSMOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS. 2015-02-13
• COSMIC DUST SPOILS A COSMOLOGICAL FINDING. 2015-02-12
• WHY NOT HOT BEER FOR COLD NIGHTS? 2015-02-11
• WHY IT WAS THE VIKINGS WHO INVENTED THE BARREL. 2015-02-10
• COMPARING AMERICA’S NEW ARISTOCRACY WITH BRITAIN’S OLD ONE. 2015-02-09
• IS GREXIT A CHICKEN GAME? (COMMENT). 2015-02-07 · 1 comment
• RADIOACTIVE POISONING—AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT EIGHT YEARS LATER. 2015-02-01

January 2015

• ANOTHER CHICKEN GAME—GREXIT. 2015-01-29 · 1 comment
• WHY WOULD THE POOR CHOOSE TO ACCEPT A NEGATIVE INTEREST RATE ON THEIR MONEY? 2015-01-27
• WHY WOULD THE RICH CHOOSE TO ACCEPT A NEGATIVE RETURN ON THEIR MONEY? 2015-01-26
• BALDRICKING YOURSELF. 2015-01-18
• HOW VIKING GROWNUPS CREATED ENGLISH. 2015-01-13
• NUCLEAR SECURITY BACK IN THE DAY. 2015-01-05

December 2014

• HOW CAN GLOBAL LIFE EXPECTANCY HAVE INCREASED BY SIX YEARS WHEN LIFE EXPECTANCY HAS DECREASED IN SO MANY COUNTRIES? 2014-12-28
• COUNTRIES WHERE LIFE EXPECTANCY HAS NOT INCREASED (COMMENT). 2014-12-27
• IN THE LAST 25 YEARS, LIFE EXPECTANCY IN THE UNITED STATES HAS INCREASED BY FOUR YEARS. 2014-12-21
• IN THE LAST 25 YEARS, GLOBAL LIFE EXPECTANCY HAS INCREASED BY SIX YEARS. 2014-12-20
• CHRIS ROCK—THE ISOLATION OF BEING RICH AND BLACK. 2014-12-15
• INTEGRATING BASEBALL TEAMS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.. 2014-12-14
• MINOSO, SLAUGHTER, AND INTEGRATING BASEBALL. 2014-12-13
• BILL JAMES ON SLAUGHTER AND MINOSO. 2014-12-12
• MINNIE MINOSO IS NOT IN THE HALL OF FAME; ENOS SLAUGHTER IS. 2014-12-11
• THE RIGHT OF CONQUEST. 2014-12-10
• NEW FALSE PATERNITY ISSUES IN THE WAR OF THE ROSES. 2014-12-09
• “FLEABAG TIMES SQUARE HOTEL”. 2014-12-08
• “LAST-CHANCE NEW YORK”. 2014-12-07
• CURTAINS AND THE IDEA OF HOME. 2014-12-04
• THE GOD THOR COMES TO EARTH AND DISCOVERS COFFEE. 2014-12-02

November 2014

• PALEO COFFEE. 2014-11-30
• TASTING JEFFERSON’S OCEAN. 2014-11-29
• AGING BOURBON AT SEA. 2014-11-28
• WHEN SPY AGENCIES CHOOSE NOT TO ACT SECRETLY. 2014-11-24
• WHAT IT’S LIKE TO HAVE THE KGB AFTER YOU. 2014-11-23
• ZERSETZUNG—HOW THE KGB LEARNED FROM THE STASI. 2014-11-22
• MORGENTHALER’S WONDERFUL LINOTYPE MACHINE. 2014-11-18
• ETAOIN SHRDLU. 2014-11-17
• THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AS SCIENTISTS. 2014-11-14
• SKEPTICISM ABOUT BICYCLE MECHANICS. 2014-11-13
• PERFECTING THE GLIDER. 2014-11-12
• AN AIRPLANE IS LIKE A BICYCLE. 2014-11-11
• ONFIM’S SCHOOLWORK. 2014-11-09
• A MEDIATED SETTLEMENT RECORDED ON BIRCH BARK. 2014-11-08
• WRITING ON BARK. 2014-11-07
• HAVE POST COMMUNIST COUNTRIES BECOME “NORMAL COUNTRIES’? 2014-11-04
• GERMAN OPINONS ON REAGAN AND SOCIALISM. 2014-11-03
• MORE ON THE EAST GERMANY/ WEST GERMANY EXPERIMENT. 2014-11-02

October 2014

• A SCHOOL PROGRESS REPORT FOR THE YOUNG BRONTE SISTERS. 2014-10-20
• EAST GERMANY AND WEST GERMANY—THE NATURAL EXPERIMENT. 2014-10-17
• AN ANCIENT ROMAN JOKE ABOUT MIND AND BODY. 2014-10-07
• WHO WROTE THE LITTLE HOUSE BOOKS? 2014-10-03
• VIKINGS—RAIDERS OR TRADERS—OR FARMERS. 2014-10-02
• HOW STEEL TANKS REPLACED BARRELS FOR BEER. 2014-10-01

September 2014

• USING BARRELS TO CHANGE THE FLAVOR OF BEERS. 2014-09-30 · 1 comment
• HENRY VIII WAS A BAD MAN. 2014-09-29 · 1 comment
• THE EFFORT REQUIRED TO LEARN A NEW WALK. 2014-09-28 · 1 comment
• THE DEBUTANTE SLOUCH. 2014-09-27
• A 1905 FASHION IN WALKING (COMMENT). 2014-09-25
• ANOTHER NINETEENTH CENTURY CRAZE—THE GRECIAN BEND. 2014-09-24 · 1 comment
• RECORDS AND RULES FOR WOBBLES. 2014-09-23
• WHEN WALKING WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT SPECTATOR SPORT. 2014-09-22
• A CYNICAL LOOK AT THE PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT FROM COMPUTERS. 2014-09-19 · 2 comments
• THE HISTORY OF UPTALK. 2014-09-09 · 2 comments
• 15 MORE UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES AT STONEHENGE. 2014-09-03
• A NEW DISCOVERY AT STONEHENGE. 2014-09-02

August 2014

• WHY IGNORE THE MUD? 2014-08-31 · 1 comment
• MUD—AGINCOURT AND BANNOCKBURN. 2014-08-30
• GOOD GROUND—BANNOCKBURN 700 YEARS LATER. 2014-08-29
• THE PROVISO YARDS. 2014-08-22
• AN UNHERALDED WAR HERO. 2014-08-21
• WHEN GRAND CENTRAL WAS A NAZI MILITARY TARGET. 2014-08-20
• WHAT IS UNDERNEATH GRAND CENTRAL? 2014-08-19
• THE REFURBISHMENT OF GRAND CENTRAL. 2014-08-18
• TOO COMPLEX TO FAIL—-LIVING WILLS. 2014-08-12
• ‘LET US SIT UPON THE GROUND….” 2014-08-09
• WHEN AUDEN DISAVOWED AN ENTIRE POEM. 2014-08-03

July 2014

• CHEMISTRY COMES TO THE DELPHIC ORACLE. 2014-07-28
• WAS THE DELPHIC ORACLE A SCAM? 2014-07-27
• DELPHI—HOW THE GOD APOLLO SPOKE TO THE GREEKS. 2014-07-26 · 1 comment
• OUR GEE WHIZ MORTGAGE. 2014-07-25 · 1 comment
• THE GREAT INFLATION. 2014-07-24
• PRAISE FOR THE ECONOMIC RESULTS OF 1979 TO 1982. 2014-07-23
• DID FEDERAL RESERVE POLICY FROM 1979 TO 1982 HAVE “MISERABLE RESULTS”? 2014-07-22
• MANHATTANHENGE. 2014-07-15
• DOING RESEARCH TO KEEP DISTILLING THE SAME. 2014-07-14
• A HISTORY OF SCOTCH WHISKEY. 2014-07-13
• HOW OFTEN SHOULD A SOVEREIGN DEFAULT ON ITS DEBT? 2014-07-12
• HOW LONG UNTIL THE NEXT FINANCIAL CRISIS? 2014-07-11 · 1 comment
• HOW MARY JANE’S GREAT UNCLE SAW HIS FIRST MATTRESS. 2014-07-09
• MUSICAL COMEDY AND INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS. 2014-07-08
• DEBATING A PERIOD IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 2014-07-07
• MUSICAL COMEDY AND HISTORICAL FACT. 2014-07-06

June 2014

• FINDS AT THE JAMESTOWN FORT. 2014-06-28
• RECREATING THE WEDDING OF POCAHONTAS AND JOHN ROLFE. 2014-06-27
• TRYING TO AVOID COSMIC DUST. 2014-06-25
• INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AN INSTANT AFTER THE BIG BANG—A CORRECTION. 2014-06-24

May 2014

• WHAT DOES SWAN TASTE LIKE? 2014-05-20
• IS SWAN OFF THE MENU BECAUSE SWANS BELONG TO THE QUEEN? 2014-05-19
• WHY DO PEOPLE NO LONGER EAT SWAN? 2014-05-18
• REAL MONEY BACK IN THE DAY. 2014-05-17
• CHEAP HORSES AND EXPENSIVE HORSES. 2014-05-16

April 2014

• TOM SHIPPEY’S JUDGMENT ON “RAIDERS OR TRADERS”. 2014-04-25
• CONTAINERS AND GLOBALIZATION. 2014-04-14
• THE DIFFERENCE THAT CONTAINERIZATION MAKES. 2014-04-13
• WHEN THOREAU BURNED DOWN THE WOODS AND DIDN’T REGRET IT. 2014-04-05
• KEEPING UP WITH THE NEWS IN THE 19TH CENTURY. 2014-04-03

March 2014

• INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AN INSTANT AFTER THE BIG BANG. 2014-03-22
• “ORNAMENT AND CRIME”. 2014-03-21
• REQUIRING BUILDINGS TO BE WHITE. 2014-03-21
• WHY ARE THE COLORS OF ROMAN BUILDINGS SO OFTEN OCHRE? 2014-03-20
• HOW TEDDY ROOSEVELT STOPPED A CRIME WAVE. 2014-03-08
• HOW A GREAT REPORTER STARTED A CRIME WAVE, 2014-03-07
• KITTY GENOVESE REVISITED—DO STRANGERS CARE? 2014-03-06

February 2014

• COMPARING RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN TRIALS. 2014-02-18

January 2014

• HOW BEYOND THE MELTING POT AFFECTED ME. 2014-01-28
• FIDDLER AND THE MELTING POT. 2014-01-26
• BRINGING FAMILY VALUABLES TO AMERICA. 2014-01-25
• A PASSION FOR FONTS—DESTROYING THE DOVES FONT. 2014-01-18
• ANOTHER THEORY FOR WHY BEER FLAVORS BECAME SIMPLER. 2014-01-16
• BREWING ANCIENT SCANDINAVIAN BEER (“NORDIC GROG”) . 2014-01-15
• AN ARGUMENT THAT SMAUG COULD HAVE PROVIDED AN ECONOMIC BENEFIT. 2014-01-10
• DECIMATION. 2014-01-08
• “LITERALLY”. 2014-01-07

December 2013

• A MUSICAL ABOUT COPY EDITING. 2013-12-21
• THE LATIN ROOTS OF BELLATRIX LESTRANGE? 2013-12-17
• THE MIRACLE THAT ANNIE SULLIVAN AND HELEN KELLER WORKED. 2013-12-13
• SHEEP RUSTLING IN THE FAMILY? 2013-12-11
• OTHER HUMBLE TECHNOLOGIES. 2013-12-08
• THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE HUMBLE BARREL. 2013-12-07
• THE CONTAINER—”ONLY A SIMPLE METAL BOX”. 2013-12-06
• WHICH CHANGED SOCIETY MORE—THE WASHING MACHINE OR THE INTERNET? 2013-12-05
• WHY THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERNET HAS HAD VERY LITTLE EFFECT ON GDP. 2013-12-04

November 2013

• AUTHENTIC FOOD FROM THE FIFTIES. 2013-11-27
• AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF PIRACY. 2013-11-06

October 2013

• NONFICTION VERSUS FICTION—42. 2013-10-28
• BILL DEWITT AND BASEBALL HISTORY. 2013-10-27
• TREATING A DEBT CEILING NEGOTIATION AS A SIMPLE CHICKEN GAME. 2013-10-18
• THE ICEMAN HAS AT LEAST 19 LIVING RELATIVES. 2013-10-17
• LYME DISEASE IS OVER 5000 YEARS OLD. 2013-10-17
• IS THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT “TOO BIG TO FAIL”? 2013-10-14
• LAGOM—MODERATION. 2013-10-13
• WHY ARE THERE SO FEW SMILES IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS? THE BAD TEETH THEORY. 2013-10-09
• HOW SCRIBES CREATED THE # SIGN. 2013-10-05

September 2013

• ORWELL—AMBIGUITY AND FREEDOM. 2013-09-27
• THE CATCHER IN THE RYE AND BIOGRAPHY. 2013-09-25
• RONALD COASE AND PHRENOLOGY. 2013-09-24
• WHEN COASE ARGUED THAT AUCTIONING VALUABLE GOVERNMENT RIGHTS WAS NOT LAUGHABLE. 2013-09-22
• A “FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON”—FIVE YEARS LATER. 2013-09-17
• THE DERIVATION OF “SPAM”. 2013-09-15
• A SPAM COOK OFF IN HAWAII. 2013-09-14 · 2 comments
• PENN AND TELLER LOOK AT VERMEER. 2013-09-10
• TIM JENISON PAINTS A VERMEER. 2013-09-09
• THE HOCKNEY-FALCO THESIS—HOW THE OLD MASTERS DID IT. 2013-09-08
• DIGGING AT KIBWORTH. 2013-09-04

August 2013

• MORE EVIDENCE OF THE CIVILIZING ROLE OF THE VIKINGS (COMMENT). 2013-08-27
• A HISTORY OF ENGLISH IN TEN MINUTES. 2013-08-24 · 1 comment
• SIXTY WAYS OF SPELLING “NIGHT”. 2013-08-23
• THE HISTORY OF HOBOS. 2013-08-20
• DIVINITY, TRINITY—A DOUBLE DACTYL. 2013-08-12
• RESISTANCE TO CHANGE—THE SEMMELWEIS REFLEX. 2013-08-10
• PERSUADING FARMERS TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS. 2013-08-08
• HOW DO YOU GET NURSES TO ADOPT A COSTLESS LIFESAVING IDEA? 2013-08-06 · 1 comment
• HOW MEDICAL INNOVATIONS ARE ADOPTED. 2013-08-05 · 1 comment

July 2013

• TERROIR FOR COLAS. 2013-07-31
• THE HISTORY OF FONTS. 2013-07-30
• WHAT IF THE ECONOMIC GROWTH SINCE 1750 WAS JUST LUCK? 2013-07-28
• HAS ECONOMIC GROWTH COME TO AN END? 2013-07-27 · 1 comment
• CATCHING A GRAPEFRUIT DROPPED FROM A GREAT HEIGHT. 2013-07-16
• GENERAL MEADE’S VICTORY AT GETTYSBURG. 2013-07-05 · 1 comment
• SOME HISTORY OF NOODLING. 2013-07-04

June 2013

• “WHAT IF PEOPLE TOLD EUROPEAN HISTORY LIKE THEY TOLD NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY?” 2013-06-27
• METAL DETECTORS AND “PRODUCTIVE SITES”. 2013-06-26
• LOCAL MARKETS—THE NEW VIEW OF THE DARK AGES ECONOMY IN ENGLAND. 2013-06-25
• PLACE NAMES THAT ARE GUIDES TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS—“MIDDLETON” AND “MELTON”. 2013-06-24
• LINKING WITH SURREY MEDIEVAL. 2013-06-23
• AN ANCIENT SPORT—IRISH ROAD BOWLING. 2013-06-22
• HOW THE BRITISH COULD HAVE FOUND OUT PAUL REVERE. 2013-06-16
• HOW IMPORTANT IS CLEAR TITLE TO PROPERTY? 2013-06-14
• THE DEATH OF A TUNISIAN BUSINESSMAN WHO HAD NO PROPERTY RIGHTS. 2013-06-13
• A COUNTRY WITHOUT PROPERTY RIGHTS—GREECE. 2013-06-12
• THE MARSHMALLOW EXPERIMENT AND ECONOMIC HISTORY. 2013-06-11 · 1 comment
• A MAP OF PANGEA. 2013-06-09 · 1 comment
• ADVENTURES IN FOOD—MARTYR’S BLOOD. 2013-06-08
• FAT BIRDS. 2013-06-07

May 2013

• PUBS AND MONEY. 2013-05-21
• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ALL OF A COUNTRY’S BANKS CLOSE? 2013-05-20
• THE “SHORTAGE” OF TOILET PAPER IN VENEZUELA. 2013-05-18
• THE IMPORTANCE OF BARK. 2013-05-17
• THE 23 WORDS THAT MAY BE 15,000 YEARS OLD. 2013-05-16
• HOW LONG DO WORDS LAST? 2013-05-15
• THE RISE AND DECLINE OF “SWELL”. 2013-05-14
• TWITTER MESSAGES AS AN AMERICAN ART FORM. 2013-05-07

April 2013

• MARSHALL MCLUHAN AND THE INTERNET. 2013-04-28 · 2 comments
• IS THIS “THE MOST LITERATE AGE IN HISTORY”? 2013-04-27
• WILL YOUTUBE REPLACE WRITING? 2013-04-26
• IS WRITING LIKE LATIN ON THE EVE OF THE RENAISSANCE? 2013-04-25
• A VINDICATION OF THOMAS MORE’S HISTORY. 2013-04-23
• IRONING SHOE LACES. 2013-04-17
• DRESSING FOR DINNER. 2013-04-17
• THE CARBOHYDRATE DIET—POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING IN NORTH KOREA. 2013-04-16
• A SOLDIER POET LOOKS AT LANDSCAPES. 2013-04-12
• “THE GOLDEN AGE OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH…HAS MOSTLY SURVIVED.” 2013-04-11
• SPALDEENS. 2013-04-07
• UNUSUAL CASTING—ULYSSES S. GRANT AS DESDEMONA. 2013-04-02

March 2013

• BANK STRESS TESTS THAT LEFT OUT THE MOST IMPORTANT STRESS. 2013-03-30
• SOME BLUFFS IN THE CYPRUS POKER GAME. 2013-03-29
• THE 14TH EARL. 2013-03-26
• THE 35TH GENERATION OF A FARMING FAMILY. 2013-03-25
• A RERUN OF THE GREEK CRISIS? 2013-03-23
• THE CYPRUS CRISIS “GOES DOWN TO THE WIRE.” 2013-03-23
• THE CYPRUS CRISIS—THE WORLD’S BIGGEST “POKER GAME”. 2013-03-18
• WHAT THE IRISH ATE BEFORE THE COMING OF THE POTATO. 2013-03-17 · 1 comment
• NOT IN THE GNP—THE FULL VALUE OF THE INTERNET. 2013-03-15
• VIKING TECHNOLOGY—SUNSTONES. 2013-03-14
• HORSE MEAT AND HARVARD. 2013-03-09
• WATLING STREET—ROMAN ROADS TODAY. 2013-03-01

February 2013

• CATS AND MANUSCRIPTS—PANGUR BAN. 2013-02-21
• A CAT WALKING ON A MANUSCRIPT. 2013-02-20 · 1 comment
• MORE TASTING NOTES FOR LAPHROAIG. 2013-02-17 · 1 comment
• CHALLENGES FOR THE ACADEMIE FRANCAISE. 2013-02-08
• FEBRUARY, 2013—”MINIMAL WORRIES BY INVESTORS”. 2013-02-06
• WAR PIGS. 2013-02-05
• DID WAR ELEPHANTS HANDICAP CARTHAGE? 2013-02-04
• ROMAN SHIELD FIGHTING. 2013-02-03
• THE EARL OF OXFORD AND HIS FART. 2013-02-02
• THE WONDER OF CELLOPHANE. 2013-02-01

January 2013

• SUNK COSTS—THE SECOND AVENUE SUBWAY. 2013-01-25
• “THE VALUE OF DOOMED RESISTANCE”. 2013-01-15
• HOW LIBOR COULD BE RIGGED. 2013-01-06
• “SOMEBODY ALWAYS CHEATS” 2013-01-04
• COMING TO AMERICA. 2013-01-01

December 2012

• OTHER THAN THAT, HOW DID YOU LIKE THE BOOK? 2012-12-29
• POSITIONAL BARGAINING AND THE FIRST REALISTIC OFFER (COMMENT). 2012-12-19 · 1 comment
• NEGOTIATING BY BEING TRUTHFUL ABOUT YOUR INTERESTS (COMMENT). 2012-12-18 · 2 comments
• DON’T MAKE THE FIRST REALISTIC OFFER. 2012-12-12 · 2 comments
• UNDERESTIMATING UNCERTAINTY. 2012-12-02

November 2012

• THE THEFT OF A WHEEL OF CHEESE. 2012-11-28
• LIFE IN OSTIA. 2012-11-27
• OSTIA. 2012-11-26 · 1 comment
• HOW AUTHENTIC ARE THE TEMPLES IN THE LARGO DI TORRE ARGENTINA? 2012-11-25
• SAVE THE ROMAN CATS. 2012-11-24
• GIVING THANKS FOR THE BIG BANG. 2012-11-22
• MORE ACCURATE COLORS FOR GREEK STATUES. 2012-11-15
• THE COLORS OF GREEK STATUES—LITERARY EVIDENCE. 2012-11-14
• MULLYGRUBS, CANTRIP, FLEECH, RANTUM SCOOT. 2012-11-08
• A CONTRAST WITH ROMAN ROADS. 2012-11-07 · 1 comment
• HOUDINI TRICKS TSAR NICHOLAS II. 2012-11-01

October 2012

• DAVID HOCKNEY: WHY ARE THERE NO SHADOWS IN NON-EUROPEAN ART? 2012-10-31
• PREDICTING TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE (COMMENT). 2012-10-29
• INCREMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT—WATER MILLS AND WIND MILLS. 2012-10-28
• INCREMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS—THE PRINTING PRESS. 2012-10-28
• ROMAN SCIENCE—GARLIC AND MAGNETS. 2012-10-27
• THE HURRICANE AND ELECTION DAY. 2012-10-26
• WHY ARE THERE SO MANY PROBLEMS WITH VOTING PROCEDURES? 2012-10-23
• MY IDEAL DEBATE—TALKING HEADS. 2012-10-22
• MY IDEAL DEBATE—NO MODERATOR. 2012-10-21
• FACT CHECKING DURING DEBATES (COMMENT). 2012-10-20
• THE CANDY CROWLEY DEBATE. 2012-10-16 · 1 comment
• GRUIT—THE RETURN OF LONG LOST BEER FLAVORS. 2012-10-15
• THE PARADOX THAT THE COMPUTER HAS NOT INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY 2012-10-11
• THREE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS RATHER THAN CONTINUAL INNOVATION. 2012-10-09
• ARE THE PAST 250 YEARS OF RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH ONLY AN INTERLUDE? 2012-10-08 · 1 comment
• COULD FAILURE OF INNOVATION END ECONOMIC GROWTH? (COMMENT) 2012-10-07
• PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES AS SPORTING EVENTS. 2012-10-03

September 2012

• DROPPING YOUR G’S. 2012-09-29
• RITES OF PASSAGE IN THE 1950’S. 2012-09-28
• TURKEY RED—HISTORY. 2012-09-27
• THE COLOR REVOLUTION—TURKEY RED. 2012-09-26
• THE COLOR REVOLUTION. 2012-09-25
• CAN QUALITY OF LIFE INCREASE EVEN THOUGH ENERGY SUPPLIES CAN’T GROW? 2012-09-23
• PHYSICAL LIMITS ON THE USE OF ENERGY RATHER THAN THE SUPPLY OF ENERGY. 2012-09-22
• THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS TO ENERGY GROWTH. 2012-09-21
• MALTHUSIANS AND PHYSICISTS; CORNUCOPIANS AND ECONOMISTS. 2012-09-20
• EXPONENTIAL ECONOMIST MEETS FINITE PHYSICIST (COMMENT). 2012-09-19
• GET CARTER—PORTRAYING THE NEWCASTLE CRIME SCENE. 2012-09-18
• GOODHART’S LAW—ONE ENORMOUS NAIL. 2012-09-14 · 2 comments
• HAPPY MEMORIES OF SURSTROMMING. 2012-09-10
• SURSTROMMING AND THE LAW. 2012-09-09
• THE JOYS OF FERMENTED HERRING—SURSTROMMING. 2012-09-08
• A REASON WHY “DUD MORTGAGES” WERE NOT CLEANED UP ONE MORTGAGE AT A TIME. 2012-09-07 · 1 comment
• BASEBALL HISTORY AS AN INTERNET GAME. 2012-09-05 · 1 comment

August 2012

• DO COMMAS CREATE AMBIGUITY?— BRITISH LEGAL DOCUMENTS. 2012-08-29
• LEARNING TO SWORD FIGHT FROM MEDIEVAL INSTRUCTION BOOKS. 2012-08-26
• SWORDS AND ARMOR. 2012-08-25
• MEDIEVAL SPORT—TOURNAMENTS. 2012-08-24
• LAPHROIAG—CUTTING PEAT. 2012-08-23 · 1 comment
• JEAN SHEPHERD’S LOU GEHRIG STORY. 2012-08-22
• MOE BERG IN JAPAN. 2012-08-21
• THE AIRPLANE STORY. 2012-08-19
• LEFTY. 2012-08-17
• MY VALUABLE HAIR. 2012-08-03

July 2012

• THINGS I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT WATERGATE. 2012-07-29
• WASHINGTON MONUMENT BUDGETING. 2012-07-28
• FINDING $54 MILLION. 2012-07-27
• THE NEED FOR A HEGEMON TODAY IN EUROPE. 2012-07-13
• THE NEED FOR A HEGEMON —THE 1930′S. 2012-07-12
• WHY ECONOMIC MODELS DON’T HAVE MUCH TO SAY ABOUT FINANCIAL CRISES. 2012-07-11
• BAGEHOT, MINSKY, AND KINDLEBERGER. 2012-07-10
• DURRINGTON WELLS. 2012-07-07
• THE ISOLATION OF STONE AGE BRITAIN. 2012-07-06
• MORE RESEARCH AT STONEHENGE. 2012-07-05
• ANNOTATING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 2012-07-04

June 2012

• ENDURING LOVE. 2012-06-29
• THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE. 2012-06-28
• FRED AND GINGER. 2012-06-27
• THE DANCING HOUSE. 2012-06-26
• THE NUN. 2012-06-20
• HENRY VIII, THE TENNIS PLAYER. 2012-06-18 · 1 comment
• REAL TENNIS. 2012-06-17
• FINDING THE THEATER WHERE ROMEO AND JULIET WAS FIRST STAGED. 2012-06-07
• SEAMUS HEANEY’S POEM ABOUT BOG BUTTER. 2012-06-02
• BURYING BOG BUTTER TO IMPROVE THE TASTE? 2012-06-01

May 2012

• GROWING A FLOWER FROM THE AGE OF WOOLLY MAMMOTHS. 2012-05-31
• ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. 2012-05-30
• A DINOSAUR THAT IS 65,000,038 YEARS OLD. 2012-05-26
• A CHART OF ATROCITIES. 2012-05-18
• IS HEREDITARY GOVERNMENT GOOD? 2012-05-13
• EXPLAINING DECLINES IN VIOLENCE (COMMENT). 2012-05-05
• HAVING A BEER WITH STONE-AGE MAN. 2012-05-03
• THE VIOLENT LIFE OF EARLY MAN?—EVIDENCE FROM TODAY. 2012-05-02

April 2012

• 1850—AVERTING WAR IN CALIFORNIA. 2012-04-27
• AMERICA’S ROLE IN UNIFYING EUROPE. 2012-04-25
• EJECTING TONS OF ROCK INTO SPACE. 2012-04-16
• HISTORY OF LEGAL TECHNOLOGY—ELLIPSIS PERIODS. 2012-04-15
• A THEORY WHY AMERICA WAS SETTLED BY PEOPLE WITH ADD. 2012-04-03

March 2012

• AN AGE OF BANK RUNS? 2012-03-28 · 1 comment
• DOES REGIONAL CULTURE AFFECT VOTING? 2012-03-15
• HOW ENGLAND GOT CABINET GOVERNMENT. 2012-03-14
• THE LONG HISTORY OF LYME DISEASE. 2012-03-10
• TRADE IN OBSIDIAN AND LAPIS LAZULI. 2012-03-09
• THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT—CHAUCER’S PRONUNCIATION. 2012-03-06 · 1 comment
• “AUNT ALICE” IN CHICAGO AND SYRACUSE. 2012-03-05
• THE NORTHERN CITIES VOWEL SHIFT. 2012-03-04

February 2012

• RICHARD FEYNMAN AND THE QUEST FOR TANNU TUVA. 2012-02-29
• GRANT—ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY FOR MANY YEARS. 2012-02-26
• SHAKESPEARE AND ULYSSES GRANT. 2012-02-26
• GRANT’S WRITINGS—THE ORDERS. 2012-02-25
• PRESIDENT GRANT, THE WRITER. 2012-02-24
• MICROACCENTS IN THE UNITED STATES—DUST BUNNIES. 2012-02-22
• ENFORCING THE MAGNA CARTA. 2012-02-16 · 1 comment
• CAVE PAINTERS PAINTING WHAT THEY SAW. 2012-02-11
• WERE SAVAGES NOBLE? 2012-02-05 · 1 comment
• ARE PEOPLE LESS VIOLENT? (COMMENT). 2012-02-04 · 2 comments

January 2012

• HOW BANKS PREPARED FOR A U.S. DEFAULT. 2012-01-31 · 2 comments
• A 25 % CHANCE OF A EURO DEFAULT? 2012-01-30
• ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS. 2012-01-27
• WAS CLARENCE DARROW A JURY TAMPERER? 2012-01-26
• DID RELIGIOUS MONUMENTS LEAD TO THE INVENTION OF AGRICULTURE? 2012-01-16
• VICTORIAN HARPOONS IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY WHALES. 2012-01-14 · 1 comment
• THE LAKE BELOW THE OPERA. 2012-01-07 · 1 comment
• MAPS OF THE UNDERGROUND QUARRIES OF PARIS. 2012-01-07 · 1 comment
• WINNING WITH FEWER VOTES—IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. 2012-01-05

December 2011

• CHRISTMAS CLUBS. 2011-12-22
• THE EUROZONE—A CHICKEN GAME WHERE EVERY MEMBER CAN BLOW IT UP? 2011-12-17 · 1 comment
• PRICING FAT TAIL RISK. 2011-12-15
• DOES COOKED FOOD PROVIDE MORE ENERGY? 2011-12-11
• UGLY RENAISSANCE BABIES. 2011-12-04

November 2011

• THE NOMINATION PROCESS—THE PROGRESS SO FAR. 2011-11-28
• IS THERE HOPE FOR A BETTER NOMINATION PROCESS? 2011-11-27
• MORE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE POTATO. 2011-11-26
• MIDDLEMARCH. 2011-11-24
• THE LEHMAN BANKRUPTCY THREE YEARS LATER. 2011-11-22
• LOOKING FOR A LOST SIX HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. 2011-11-07
• PUNCTUATION—WHAT’S TRENDING. 2011-11-02

October 2011

• SHAKESPEARE’S EDUCATION (COMMENT). 2011-10-26
• ANONYMOUS—ONLY ARISTOCRATS CAN CREATE LITERATURE. 2011-10-25
• POTATOES AND WAR. 2011-10-20
• HOW THE POTATO SAVED THE IRISH FOR A TIME. 2011-10-19
• “HOW THE POTATO CHANGED THE WORLD’S HISTORY.” 2011-10-18
• THE DOWNFALL OF THE POTATO. 2011-10-17
• VIKING WOMEN. 2011-10-03
• VIKINGS AND IRISHMEN LIVING TOGETHER. 2011-10-01

September 2011

• HOW MANY SAW THIS COULD HAPPEN AGAIN? 2011-09-22
• ARE THE BIGGEST BANKS A CURSE? 2011-09-21 · 1 comment
• WAS OUR FAMILY MIDDLE BROW? 2011-09-17
• ROQUEFORT CHEESE—HIGH BROW, MIDDLE BROW OR LOW BROW? 2011-09-16
• “AVANT-GARDE AND KITSCH”. 2011-09-15
• “REGULATORY CAPTURE BY SOPHISTICATION”. 2011-09-13

August 2011

• FORCING TWINS TO BE DIFFERENT. 2011-08-29
• BANKING 101—CREDIT ANALYSIS. 2011-08-26
• BANKING 101—LIQUIDITY. 2011-08-24
• 45 MILES OF ARCHIVES. 2011-08-18
• BOOMSTERS AND DOOMSTERS. 2011-08-12
• MALTHUSIANS AND “CORNUCOPIANS”. 2011-08-11
• SIMPLE AND COMPLEX CHICKEN GAMES (COMMENT). 2011-08-07 · 1 comment

July 2011

• THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. 2011-07-27
• THE “INDUSTRIOUS REVOLUTION” AND MARKETS. 2011-07-26
• WHAT HAPPENED TO STANDARDS OF LIVING IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION? 2011-07-25
• WHAT HAPPENED IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION—AN UPDATE. 2011-07-24
• THE BILLION PRICE PROJECT. 2011-07-23
• ANOTHER ACCOMPLISHMENT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. 2011-07-21
• BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION AND THE FACTS. 2011-07-18
• QUESTIONING BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION. 2011-07-17
• “EYEBALL TO EYEBALL”. 2011-07-13
• REMEMBERING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS. 2011-07-12 · 2 comments
• HOW LINCOLN SAVED THE IDEA OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT. 2011-07-11
• A DAY FOR BONFIRES AND ILLUMINATIONS. 2011-07-04

June 2011

• WILL 3D MOVIES CHANGE HOW WE LOOK AT THE WORLD? 2011-06-30
• ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE SHIRE. 2011-06-27
• BAYESIAN ARCHAEOLOGY. 2011-06-26
• DATING THE WARS BETWEEN 3675 B.C. AND 3475 B.C. 2011-06-25
• AGRICULTURE CAME TO ENGLAND IN 4050 B.C. 2011-06-25
• ARCHIVES AND “THE INDUSTRIOUS REVOLUTION.” 2011-06-23
• MORE MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF DATA IN THE ARCHIVES—HOUSEHOLD INVENTORIES. 2011-06-22
• KENNEDY AND AND REAGAN AND EXPANSION (COMMENT). 2011-06-15
• WHAT WOULD KENNEDY AND REAGAN DO? 2011-06-14 · 3 comments
• THE CONTINUING UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS. 2011-06-14
• “NO WITNESS—NO CASE.” 2011-06-13
• REMARKABLY SUCCESSFUL DEFENSE LAWYERS. 2011-06-12
• AMERICANS ESCAPING THEIR PAST. 2011-06-11 · 2 comments
• CRIME—IS AMERICA LESS OPEN THAN IT WAS 100 YEARS AGO? 2011-06-10
• BETTER BEER. 2011-06-05
• WHAT IMPROVING HEALTH AND NUTRITION DOES FOR THE NEXT GENERATION. 2011-06-04

May 2011

• 3D GLASSES IN WORLD WAR II. 2011-05-30
• STEAMPUNKING. 2011-05-29
• APPLYING THE 1993 ARTICLE TO 2008. 2011-05-20
• THE 1993 ARTICLE BY AKERLOF AND ROMER THAT FORESAW THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. 2011-05-19
• THE “THEORY OF LOOTING.” 2011-05-18
• THE ROMANCE OF EDGELANDS. 2011-05-13
• “BANKS RUSH TO IMPROVE FORECLOSURE PRACTICES.” 2011-05-12
• “FORECLOSURES TRAPPED BY A LACK OF LAWYERS.” 2011-05-11 · 1 comment
• USING PROBABILITIES IN INTELLIGENCE—FINDING BIN LADEN. 2011-05-09
• MORE THOUGHTS ON GRAIN AND HISTORY. 2011-05-06
• DID GRAIN CREATE TRADE AND DEMOCRACY? 2011-05-05

April 2011

• SOME HISTORY OF ROOMS. 2011-04-23
• PHONEMES AND HISTORY. 2011-04-21
• TIMELINES FOR LANGUAGES. 2011-04-20
• A POSITIVE VOTE FOR REPRODUCTIONS—HENRY FORD. 2011-04-15

March 2011

• WHEN CONTRACTIONS WERE DISREPUTABLE—TRUE GRIT. 2011-03-21 · 4 comments
• “AMN’T” AND “AIN’T” (COMMENT). 2011-03-20
• ACADEMICS BEHAVING BADLY—THE ASH TRAY ARGUMENT. 2011-03-14
• THE KING JAMES BIBLE AND ENGLISH STYLE. 2011-03-13
• EAVAN BOLAND’S ACHILL ISLAND. 2011-03-10
• ACHILL WOMAN—EAVAN BOLAND. 2011-03-08 · 1 comment
• THE ACCURACY OF MAD MEN. 2011-03-06 · 3 comments
• MODERNISM—DETACHED AND RESTRAINED AND UPPER-CLASS. 2011-03-02 · 1 comment
• EATING PEAS WITH A KNIFE. 2011-03-01 · 1 comment

February 2011

• SERVANTS WRITING POETRY. 2011-02-28
• THE BENEFITS AND COSTS OF FIGHTING MALARIA. 2011-02-26 · 3 comments
• MALARIA—780,000 DEATHS A YEAR. 2011-02-25
• OUR 16 1/2% MORTGAGE. 2011-02-20
• THE END OF PRICE CONTROL POLICIES. 2011-02-19
• MEDIEVAL CITY CHARTERS. 2011-02-17
• NEW CHARTER CITIES? 2011-02-16
• LIFE COPYING ART—”INFORMATION RICOCHET.” 2011-02-04

January 2011

• REVISIONIST HISTORY—STATES’ RIGHTS AND THE CIVIL WAR. 2011-01-23 · 1 comment
• REVISIONIST HISTORY—WILLIAM AND MARY. 2011-01-22 · 1 comment
• MIDWESTERN POLITENESS BACK IN THE DAY. 2011-01-16
• THE ACCURACY OF 1776. 2011-01-14
• ESTABLISHING THE FIRST AMERICAN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. 2011-01-13
• ANOTHER VIEW OF CORRUPTION—NOT SHARING. 2011-01-03

December 2010

• MY POLITICAL HERITAGE. 2010-12-20
• ANOTHER COUPLE OF EXPLANATIONS OF THE OFF-YEAR ELECTION CYCLE. 2010-12-13
• AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION OF WHY THERE IS SO LITTLE COLLEGIALITY IN CONGRESS.. 2010-12-13
• THE FEILER FASTER THESIS. 2010-12-12 · 1 comment
• A SPEECH WRITER LOOKS AT THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. 2010-12-11 · 4 comments
• NEW ARCHIVAL FIND ON AN ELIZABETHAN MYSTERY. 2010-12-10 · 2 comments
• MORE WEIGHTINESS FOR A CONNECTICUT YANKEE. 2010-12-08

November 2010

• RED AND BLUE COUNTIES NATIONALLY—WHY? 2010-11-30 · 1 comment
• RED AND BLUE AREAS WITHIN A STATE. 2010-11-30
• GIVING THANKS 150 YEARS LATER. 2010-11-24
• NEWS FROM 150 YEARS AGO—DISUNION. 2010-11-23
• NEWS FROM 150 YEARS AGO—THE LONG RECALL. 2010-11-23
• RELIVING THE CIVIL WAR DAY BY DAY—THE LONG RECALL. 2010-11-22
• THE VICKS VAPORUB TRAINING PROGRAM. 2010-11-18
• ECONOMIC REGULATION AND HELMET HITS. 2010-11-06
• OVERCONFIDENCE AMONG THE EXPERTS. 2010-11-03

October 2010

• SAINT VINCENT’S HOSPITAL CLOSES. 2010-10-28
• HIGH WINDS IN CHICAGO—SOME FAMILY HISTORY. 2010-10-27 · 1 comment
• TOXIC ASSETS AND FORECLOSURE PROBLEMS. 2010-10-08
• WHEN (AND WHERE) DR. SEUSS WAS VULGAR. 2010-10-01

September 2010

• HOW AUTISM’S FIRST CHILD LIVES. 2010-09-27
• “AUTISM’S FIRST CHILD.” 2010-09-26
• THE IMPORTANCE OF THE GREEK DEBT CRISIS. 2010-09-16 · 1 comment
• NOT KNOWING HOW MANY EMPLOYEES YOU HAVE. 2010-09-15
• GOOD ECONOMIC NEWS—THE MIRACLE OF THE CERRADO. 2010-09-09
• A BOOKMAKER’S VIEW—THE UPSET OF THE MILLENNIUM. 2010-09-05
• ARE ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA OVERRATED? 2010-09-02

August 2010

• KABADDI—THE WORLD’S OLDEST SPORT? 2010-08-31
• WHITE SCULPTURES AND DARK INTERIORS. 2010-08-29 · 1 comment
• RESEARCH ON WHETHER POWER CORRUPTS. 2010-08-28 · 1 comment
• HISTORICAL RESEARCH YET TO BE DONE. 2010-08-20
• GARUM—THE IMPORTANCE OF ROTTEN FISH. 2010-08-05 · 4 comments
• A ROMAN CANAL. 2010-08-04
• WERE THE HOMERIC GREEKS COLOR-BLIND? 2010-08-01 · 1 comment

July 2010

• JOUSTS OF WAR. 2010-07-19
• JOUSTING BACK IN THE DAY—JOUSTS OF PEACE. 2010-07-19
• JOYCE APPLEBY’S DARWINIAN THEORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. 2010-07-14
• GREGORY CLARK’S DARWINIAN THEORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. 2010-07-13
• JOHN DICKINSON—A DISSENTING PATRIOT. 2010-07-04
• HOW FIREWORKS WORK. 2010-07-04

June 2010

• IN PRAISE OF VUVUZELAS. 2010-06-22
• THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORLD CUP. 2010-06-22
• NEGOTIUM. 2010-06-20
• THE INVENTION OF MAIZE. 2010-06-10
• TRADE AND THE ASCENT OF MAN. 2010-06-09
• THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY—SOME FAMILY NOTES. 2010-06-04

May 2010

• A CHANGING MANHATTAN—AFTER 1968. 2010-05-26
• A CHANGING GREENWICH VILLAGE—BEFORE 1968. 2010-05-25
• ALAN SILLITOE AND THE BRITISH CLASS SYSTEM. 2010-05-10 · 1 comment
• THE PROBLEM OF THE SUPERIOR DUELIST. 2010-05-09
• THE ECONOMICS OF DUELING. 2010-05-08

April 2010

• RIP VAN WINKLE AND HISTORY. 2010-04-26
• WEIGHING HISTORICAL FICTION. 2010-04-26 · 3 comments
• THE WEIGHTINESS OF A CONNECTICUT YANKEE. 2010-04-25
• MARK TWAIN’S GREAT SUBJECT. 2010-04-23
• A FANTASY OF MOUNT TESTACCIO. 2010-04-03
• THE NEED FOR CLASSICAL SCHOLARS. 2010-04-03

March 2010

• “HER HUSBAND—I MEAN HER BROTHER.” 2010-03-17
• IMPLAUSIBLE HISTORICAL EVENTS—CLODIUS PULCHER. 2010-03-16
• CONSPIRATA. 2010-03-15

February 2010

• PROBLEMS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. 2010-02-22
• SOLDIERS COORDINATING THEIR MOVEMENTS. 2010-02-21 · 2 comments
• MARRIED LOVE AND WESTERN LITERATURE. 2010-02-13
• UPDIKE AND LOVE IN THE WESTERN WORLD. 2010-02-12
• LOVE IN THE WESTERN WORLD. 2010-02-12
• MOUNT TESTACCIO. 2010-02-11
• ITALIAN LEI—AVOIDING ISSUES. 2010-02-09
• HOW MANY KISSES ARE POLITE? 2010-02-08
• TU AND VOUS REVISITED—POLITENESS STUDIES. 2010-02-07
• SOME ANSWERS TO THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT ORDEALS. 2010-02-03
• HOW DID DEFENDANTS DO IN ORDEALS? 2010-02-02
• PRAISE FOR TRIAL BY ORDEAL. 2010-02-01

January 2010

• WAS MY FATHER A CURMUDGEON? 2010-01-27 · 1 comment
• VIKINGS AND CELTS AND GERMANIC INVADERS LIVING TOGETHER (REVISITED). 2010-01-25 · 1 comment
• WHEN LANGUAGES COLLIDE SLOWLY—THE CELTICS. 2010-01-24
• WHEN LANGUAGES COLLIDE RAPIDLY—THE VIKINGS. 2010-01-23
• DID PHOENICIANS IN DENMARK FORM THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE? 2010-01-17 · 1 comment
• GRIMM’S LAW—A WEIRD CHANGE IN LANGUAGE? 2010-01-16
• HOW PRONUNCIATION CHANGES—NEOPOLITAN DIALECT. 2010-01-15
• MICROCLIMATES FIVE YARDS WIDE. 2010-01-13
• AN OPTIMISTIC ECONOMIC LOOK AT THE LAST DECADE. 2010-01-05

December 2009

• CHRISTMAS ON THE PRAIRIE. 2009-12-25
• “….A LITTLE SAD AND A LITTLE LONESOME….” 2009-12-18
• ARE AMERICANS NOT SERIOUS ENOUGH? 2009-12-12 · 2 comments

November 2009

• WHAT IF THE UNION HAD DISSOLVED? 2009-11-27
• FRENCH LOCALISM (COMMENT). 2009-11-27
• LIBERTY AND UNION. 2009-11-26
• UTOPIA AND THANKSGIVING. 2009-11-26
• FRANCE—STILL DECENTRALIZED IN 1940. 2009-11-21 · 1 comment
• UTOPIA AND PRACTICALITY. 2009-11-19
• FASHIONS OF THE FIFTIES—CRINOLINES. 2009-11-17
• THE MOST POPULAR MOVIE OF THE SIXTIES. 2009-11-15
• REMEMBERING DECADES. 2009-11-13
• IMPRISONING YOUR CITIZENS. 2009-11-10 · 1 comment
• IT LOOKS EASY AFTERWARDS (COMMENT). 2009-11-10 · 1 comment
• THE BERLIN WALL TWENTY YEARS LATER. 2009-11-09 · 5 comments
• BOG IRON. 2009-11-08
• A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPEAN GEOPOLITICS? 2009-11-05

October 2009

• DEFENDING THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. 2009-10-17
• CENTRAL PARK—A “LANDSCAPE IN THE ENGLISH PASTORAL TRADITION.” 2009-10-05

September 2009

• DEFINING MAN: THE SPECIES THAT COOKS. 2009-09-30
• THE REMARKABLE MOE BERG (COMMENT). 2009-09-29
• BEING FRIGHTENED OF GERMANY. 2009-09-25
• “MR. GORBACHEV, KEEP THIS WALL UP!” 2009-09-24
• RANK HAD ITS PRIVILEGES—COSMETICS. 2009-09-22
• ONE MORE YEAR AND THEY WILL HAVE COUNTED THE BEANS. 2009-09-21
• MOE BERG REVISITED. 2009-09-21
• MAYBE A BIG BANK HAD TO FAIL. 2009-09-15

August 2009

• WHY THE “BIG MEN” IN NEW GUINEA OPPOSE FREE MARKETS. 2009-08-30 · 1 comment
• PURIPURI AND WITCHCRAFT—SOMETIMES IT’S NOT RATIONAL TO MAXIMIZE PROFITS. 2009-08-29
• FAIRY ENCHANTMENT—PISHOGUE. 2009-08-28
• BOG BUTTER. 2009-08-27 · 1 comment
• TOBACCO SMOKE ENEMAS. 2009-08-13 · 1 comment
• FLASH TRADING AND PREDATORY CAPITALISM—MY THOUGHTS. 2009-08-08
• FLASH TRADING AND THE DOMESDAY BOOK: FORESTALLING. 2009-08-07

July 2009

• THE ROARIN’ ELGIN. 2009-07-05 · 2 comments
• THE DESTRUCTION OF ARISTOCRACY. 2009-07-04 · 2 comments

June 2009

• THE BOSTON MOLASSES DISASTER. 2009-06-28
• LIVING IN CAVES. 2009-06-19
• THE VIA AURELIA. 2009-06-18
• “YOU WAS.” 2009-06-17 · 1 comment
• HOW THE ROMANS BROUGHT WATER TO THE DESERT. 2009-06-15 · 1 comment
• “GREAT MEN ARE ALMOST ALWAYS BAD MEN….” 2009-06-14 · 1 comment
• BAD LORDS. 2009-06-14 · 1 comment
• ESCAPING WITH THE CONFEDERATE TREASURY (COMMENT). 2009-06-10
• HOW CAN YOU NOT RECOGNIZE A SPOUSE? 2009-06-08 · 1 comment
• WISCONSIN 1900–WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP. 2009-06-01 · 2 comments

May 2009

• ANOTHER RHETT BUTLER (COMMENT). 2009-05-31
• LOCAL NAMES ON THE LANDSCAPE. 2009-05-25
• THOSE COMMERCIAL AMERICANS. 2009-05-19
• THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY FOR THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. 2009-05-02

April 2009

• RATING AGENCIES SHOULD USE PROBABILITIES. 2009-04-30
• PIRATES OF LAKE MICHIGAN. 2009-04-18
• “A JAMAICAN STORY.” 2009-04-13 · 1 comment
• MAX’S KANSAS CITY. 2009-04-02

March 2009

• SCORN FOR LANDSCAPES IN OTHER CENTURIES. 2009-03-25 · 1 comment
• SETTLERS OR RAIDERS? (COMMENT). 2009-03-24 · 2 comments
• “THE FURY OF THE NORSEMEN” (COMMENT). 2009-03-23 · 4 comments
• WERE THE VIKINGS “MODEL IMMIGRANTS”? 2009-03-18 · 2 comments
• STANDUP COMEDY FROM ANCIENT GREECE. 2009-03-02 · 1 comment

February 2009

• WHAT WOULD BAGEHOT SAY ABOUT TOXIC ASSETS? 2009-02-27
• ROMAN FOOD AND ROMAN NAMES. 2009-02-23
• DID COOKING MAKE US HUMAN? 2009-02-23
• “THE MOST SANCTIMONIOUS SONG.” 2009-02-22 · 5 comments
• “WHAT DO THE SIMPLE FOLK DO?”—REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. 2009-02-21
• VENETIAN AND ITALIAN. 2009-02-17
• POOR FARMERS AND MARKETS. 2009-02-09
• CELLPHONES FOR THE POOR IN INDIA. 2009-02-09

January 2009

• CARLYLE AND JOHNSON AND THE CASH NEXUS. 2009-01-29 · 2 comments
• THE STRANGE LOVE STORY OF HEIDEGGER AND HANNAH ARENDT. 2009-01-23
• TWO SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHY LANDSCAPE IS DEAD. 2009-01-19
• THE DEATH OF LANDSCAPE? 2009-01-17 · 4 comments
• IN PRAISE OF BUSINESSMEN. 2009-01-14
• WEDGWOOD AS A SCIENTIST. 2009-01-14
• IN PRAISE OF SALESMEN. 2009-01-13 · 3 comments
• JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. 2009-01-13
• CORNERING THE MARKET IN 2008—WHY VOLKSWAGEN WAS THE MOST VALUABLE COMPANY IN THE WORLD. 2009-01-10
• BEING SHAPED BY THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS. 2009-01-08 · 4 comments
• BEING SHAPED BY THE GREAT DEPRESSION. 2009-01-08 · 3 comments

December 2008

• LESSONS: THE TWO PER CENT RULE OF THUMB. 2008-12-13
• THE HANDS OF THE CLOCK STUCK STRAIGHT OUT. 2008-12-11
• HOW CORRUPT IS ILLINOIS? 2008-12-11
• WHAT WOULD KEYNES DO? 2008-12-03
• TAKING INVENTORY; STICKING TANKS; SALAD OIL. 2008-12-01

November 2008

• CHANGING MY MIND: BROKEN WINDOWS. 2008-11-28
• THANKSGIVING 2008. 2008-11-27
• A MICROACCENT FROM 600 YEARS AGO. 2008-11-18
• WHERE THERE ARE COINS, THERE MUST BE MARKETS. 2008-11-15
• NEBRASKA SPLITS ITS ELECTORAL VOTES. 2008-11-12
• GRIMSTON HYBRIDS—“VIKING” AND “ENGLISH” INTERACTING. 2008-11-08 · 1 comment
• NINETEENTH CENTURY VIEWS OF “ENGLISHNESS.” (COMMENT). 2008-11-06 · 2 comments

October 2008

• NATURE RUNS SOME EXPERIMENTS. 2008-10-31
• DEBATES–WHEN ADMIRAL STOCKDALE WALKED ON. 2008-10-06 · 1 comment
• BAGEHOT AGAIN. 2008-10-03

September 2008

• WHAT WOULD BAGEHOT DO?–REVISITED. 2008-09-26
• SPOONS. 2008-09-12
• CORRECTING FOR THE EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION AND PENSION CONTRIBUTIONS. 2008-09-11
• INTERPRETING THE ECONOMIC REPORT CARD. 2008-09-10
• CONFLICT OF INTEREST–GERHARD SCHROEDER. 2008-09-06 · 2 comments
• APPLYING THE PAGE 69 TEST AND A RECOMMENDATION. 2008-09-03

August 2008

• NOSTALGIA FOR THE IRON CURTAIN. 2008-08-31
• THE “POWER GUYS” EXTEND THEIR RULE. 2008-08-31 · 3 comments
• POLITICAL CONVENTIONS ARE NEWS. 2008-08-27 · 1 comment
• HOW COOKING SHAPED THE HUMAN BRAIN. 2008-08-15 · 1 comment

July 2008

• HOW JOHN LOCKE CREATED REASONABLE MEN. 2008-07-31
• THE CHANGING ROLE OF JURIES. 2008-07-29
• WHAT HAPPENED TO ISSUES THAT REASONABLE MEN COULD DIFFER ON? 2008-07-27
• HOW THE FREE TRADE MOVEMENT CHANGED POLITICAL ARGUMENT. 2008-07-26
• WILFRED N. McCOY (COMMENT). 2008-07-10 · 1 comment

June 2008

• RESTORING STREAMS. 2008-06-26
• THE MISERY INDEX—REAGAN’S LUCK? 2008-06-12
• THE MISERY INDEX, CARTER AND REAGAN. 2008-06-12
• STAGFLATION AND THE 1980 ELECTION. 2008-06-11

May 2008

• THE RELATIVE POVERTY OF VERY POOR PEOPLE. 2008-05-30 · 1 comment
• WHY THE ONE DOLLAR A DAY LINE IS VALUABLE. 2008-05-30
• MEASURING “ESCAPES FROM POVERTY.” 2008-05-29
• LIVING ON $1.25 A DAY. 2008-05-29
• MARXISM AND FARCE. 2008-05-27 · 5 comments
• MARXIST INTERPRETATIONS OF HISTORY. 2008-05-17 · 6 comments
• THE APPROACH TO STONEHENGE. 2008-05-10 · 1 comment
• HELPING THE POOR TO BE MORE EFFICIENT. 2008-05-06
• BETTER MARKETS WITH CELLPHONES. 2008-05-06
• CAN THE CELLPHONE HELP END GLOBAL POVERTY? 2008-05-05
• HOW THE VERY POOR SPEND THEIR MONEY WHEN THEY HAVE MORE THAN $1 A DAY. 2008-05-05

April 2008

• NORTHWESTERN STORY—SCANDAL. 2008-04-26
• NORTHWESTERN STORY—DECORUM 2008-04-25

March 2008

• BORROWING FOR A DAY AND LENDING FOR YEARS (COMMENT). 2008-03-26 · 1 comment
• ECONOMICS AND THE RULE OF LAW. 2008-03-24
• GRAIN ELEVATORS. 2008-03-23
• CREATING A MARKET FOR GRAIN. 2008-03-22
• HOW ETHIOPIA IS IMITATING CHICAGO. 2008-03-21 · 1 comment
• A VOICE FROM 1873. 2008-03-17 · 4 comments

February 2008

• A NATO OF THE EAST? 2008-02-29 · 1 comment
• THE GREAT GATSBY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. 2008-02-26 · 2 comments

January 2008

• DEAD DONKEYS. 2008-01-30
• FLAMING PIGS. 2008-01-30 · 2 comments
• WORDS LONG AGO RAN FREE…. 2008-01-29
• THE DEATH OF A CHAMPION. 2008-01-13

December 2007

• DIEHARD MARXISTS. 2007-12-30
• EAST GERMANY AND WEST GERMANY. 2007-12-30
• HAVING ONE BIG INK BLOT ON YOUR RECORD. 2007-12-29
• STOPPARD AND THE FALL OF THE IRON CURTAIN. 2007-12-28
• ROCK ‘N’ ROLL. 2007-12-28
• ARE EXPERTS NO GOOD? (COMMENT) 2007-12-20 · 1 comment
• THE SOUND OF BELLS (COMMENT). 2007-12-05

November 2007

• SLEEPING THROUGH THE WINTER. 2007-11-29 · 4 comments
• VARIETIES OF FRENCH BREAD. 2007-11-28
• SHEPHERDS ON STILTS. 2007-11-28
• “ALL ROME LEADS TO ROADS.” 2007-11-27 · 1 comment
• UPDATE—“MICROACCENTS” IN FRANCE. 2007-11-27 · 3 comments
• THOREAU AND THE PIONEERS. 2007-11-13
• WHAT CAUSED THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION? 2007-11-12
• LOOKING BACK: ECONOMICS FORTY YEARS AGO—DEVELOPMENT. 2007-11-11
• LOOKING BACK: ECONOMICS FORTY YEARS AGO—SMOKE. 2007-11-10 · 1 comment
• LOOKING BACK: THREE THINGS I NEVER THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN. 2007-11-09 · 4 comments
• NOVEMBER 9, 1989. 2007-11-08
• “PELL-MELL” TODAY. 2007-11-05 · 1 comment
• TOM WOLFE ON AMERICAN COLLEGES. 2007-11-05
• IMMENSELY IMPORTANT BORING STATUTES. 2007-11-04 · 3 comments
• A FREE MARKET IN LAND. 2007-11-04 · 1 comment

October 2007

• THE NOTORIOUS DOCTOR CRIPPEN AND DNA. 2007-10-29
• JOURNALISTS AND SOURCE GREASERS (REVISITED). 2007-10-28
• THE MARKET REVOLUTION IN AMERICA 1815 TO 1846–GOOD OR BAD? 2007-10-27 · 1 comment
• MUSSOLINI, THE INFLUENTIAL–JOURNALISM. 2007-10-24
• MUSSOLINI, THE INFLUENTIAL–GOVERNMENT. 2007-10-23
• GOVERNMENT BY GANGSTERS: STALIN. 2007-10-22
• GENERAL MACARTHUR’S VISIT REVISITED (COMMENT). 2007-10-05 · 1 comment
• “MICROACCENTS” IN ITALY. 2007-10-02

September 2007

• IT IS EASIER TO DISPROVE THAN TO PROVE. 2007-09-30 · 1 comment
• HOW TO NEED A THREE AND A HALF BILLION DOLLAR RESCUE. 2007-09-29
• BLACK SWANS ARE MORE COMMON THAN WE THINK. 2007-09-27
• DOUGLAS MACARTHUR’S RETURN TO CHICAGO. 2007-09-26
• CONTESTED CONVENTIONS (UPDATE). 2007-09-10 · 2 comments

August 2007

• THE “POWER GUYS” RULE RUSSIA. 2007-08-26
• THE PANIC OF 1907 AND MY FATHER. 2007-08-24 · 3 comments
• THE PANIC OF 1907. 2007-08-24
• WHAT WOULD BAGEHOT DO? 2007-08-23
• TODAY’S ARTICLE ON MALTHUS. 2007-08-07 · 1 comment

July 2007

• HONG KONG TEN YEARS LATER. 2007-07-02

June 2007

• A TOWN’S 700th BIRTHDAY. 2007-06-25
• BIPARTISAN FOREIGN POLICY–A NEW GENERATION. 2007-06-22
• JUNE 6, 1944. 2007-06-06

May 2007

• A NINETEENTH CENTURY ROMANCE. 2007-05-27 · 2 comments
• MOE BERG. 2007-05-26
• THE GRAND PRIX SABOTEURS. 2007-05-26 · 3 comments
• DOES AMERICA NEED A QUEEN? 2007-05-25 · 2 comments
• MY VOTES–THE FLATIRON BUILDING (#72). 2007-05-20 · 1 comment
• PARKINSON’S LAW. 2007-05-19
• COMMUNITY HATREDS. 2007-05-15 · 2 comments
• THE NEW YORK SOCIAL HIERARCHY. 2007-05-12 · 3 comments

April 2007

• ROMAN ROADS AND ROMAN PARIS. 2007-04-30
• NUTRITION AND THE VERY POOR. 2007-04-28 · 1 comment
• THE OTHER EXPENDITURES OF THE VERY POOR. 2007-04-26 · 1 comment
• HOW TO LIVE ON ONE DOLLAR A DAY. 2007-04-25 · 9 comments
• DEPRIVATION AS WELL AS POVERTY, APRIL 20, 1726. 2007-04-20
• SHOULD PEOPLE SATISFICE IN LOVE? 2007-04-14 · 2 comments
• GRACE O’MALLEY. 2007-04-11

March 2007

• WHY IS I-95 WHERE IT IS? 2007-03-30
• THE LOST RIVERS OF LONDON. 2007-03-29
• FEBRUARY 26, 1690. 2007-03-27
• OLD ENGLISH CRIMES. 2007-03-26
• SPRING THAWS AND STONE WALLS. 2007-03-22 · 1 comment
• PRICE CONTROLS IN THE SEVENTIES. 2007-03-18 · 5 comments
• THE LUCK OF RONALD REAGAN. 2007-03-15 · 3 comments
• A MEDIEVAL DUEL TO THE DEATH. 2007-03-10 · 1 comment
• A REGENCY DUEL TO THE DEATH. 2007-03-10
• CELESTINE. 2007-03-06 · 4 comments
• WAS ENGLISH SPOKEN IN BRITAIN BEFORE THE ROMANS GOT THERE? 2007-03-06 · 5 comments

February 2007

• MENTAL ILLNESS OR PHYSICAL ILLNESS? 2007-02-28 · 1 comment
• HOMAGE TO CATALONIA REVISITED. 2007-02-25
• RANKING THE WORST PRESIDENTS— DOES CIVIL RIGHTS MATTER? 2007-02-24
• ANOTHER REASON WHY MICROFINANCE IS GOOD. 2007-02-02 · 1 comment

January 2007

• WHEN BEING TALL IS A POLITICAL DISADVANTAGE. 2007-01-31 · 2 comments
• BEN FRANKLIN, LIBRARIES, AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 2007-01-30 · 2 comments
• WHY DO ROMAN MATRONS BEHAVE SO BADLY? I BLAME SUETONIUS. 2007-01-27
• TAG CLOUD USAGE 2007-01-22 · 1 comment
• ROMAN MATRONS BEHAVING BADLY. 2007-01-21 · 2 comments

November 2006

• THANKSGIVING 2006-11-23 · 5 comments