The Philosopher's Stone

A shout out to Matt Lister, the first reader of this blog to respond to my appeal for donations to USSAS. Many thanks, Matt.

Two commentators -- JP and Angus -- have raised some fundamental questions about the underlying thesis of my exposition, and I am going to p...

Seventh Post Since some of you are getting into the spirit of the thing, and rooting for one family or another [we have at least one Galt fa...

OK, you have to read this, from The Onion of several days ago. Here is the link. http://www.theonion.com/articles/historians-admit-to-inven...

Sixth Post Each month, BLS employees fan out across America and knock on the doors of the 50,000 households in the BLS sample. They ask ques...

Fifth Post Several readers of this series of posts have themselves posted very interesting comments. Since I am writing this as I post, I ha...

Fourth Post In the course of this fourth segment, I shall refer to some books that I consider especially suggestive or helpful in understand...