The Philosopher's Stone

I should like to return yet again to the Piketty, Saez, Zucman paper, about which I have written these past two days, because it is centra...

Yesterday, I discussed an extremely important essay by Piketty, Saez, and Zucman.  Today, I want to quote several passages, and comment on ...

As you may have read, the southland was hit by a snowstorm yesterday, and at 2 p.m. or so, while Susie and I were working on the jigsaw pu...

No walk this morning.   Down here in North Carolina, home of Republican voter fraud, we are snowed in.   It will be days before I can driv...

Let me add a few words about a subject on which Jerry Fresia, David Palmeter, and S. Wallerstein have had something to say. Over the p...

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote wisely, "When you strike at a king, you must kill him."  Until there are twenty Republican senators...

In response to my brief response to MS, anonymous writes “Is it possible to disagree with a literary critic? It seems that they refuse to...