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Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English Romanticism By Paul Cantor Frankenstein  has as much claim to mythic status as any stor...

Vanishing Dollars by Pater Tenebrarum Last time we wrote about Argentina , we discussed the fact that the government had begun to ...

Danger still looms By Pepe Escobar  So it's going to be Our Man in Quito. The narrative may not be as elegant as Graham Greene...

Across the West politics is becoming more oligarchical and bitchy by Frank Furedi   The ease with which Labor’s Kevin Rudd deposed pa...

It is unwise to rely on the everlasting meekness of mobs by Theodore Dalrymple    Recent events in Turkey ought remind us, if we nee...

The idea that without free will there can be no morality is one of those obvious facts that bears repeating by Tibor R. Machan Let me...

Stigende renter? Hvad er det? Hjælp! by  Pater Tenebrarum If we're not completely mistaken, then the above is Danish for: “Risin...

If no one can rule effectively, civil war and the fragmentation of Egypt into several mini-states may become a distinct possibility By M...

The commitment to the sanctity of the individual undergirds the institutions we inherited from the Revolution and Civil War By Speng...

When Professor Friedman Opened Pandora’s Box: Open Market Operations by David Stockman At the end of the day, Friedman jettisoned the...

QE Must End, But Bernanke's Plan May Be Too Hasty By William H. Gross June Gloom, the fog and clouds that often linger here ov...

How rising inequality and social stagnation are reshaping us for the worst At the ages of 4 to 5, children from the poorest fifth of ho...

Debt Liquidation? by Tyler Durden That Iceland is so far the   only   success story in the continent of Europe, which continues slidi...

Entropy never sleeps by James Howard Kunstler Wondering why the money world got its knickers in a twist last week? The answer is simp...

Tapes reveal the lies and deception that led to the bank bailout The Irish people, who sacrificed their sovereignty and billions of Eur...