Ghulf Genes

I came across an interesting quote about degeneration today from a late nineteenth century book on biology: Any new set of conditions o...

Sometimes I feel as once a Greek might have felt in Rome. That thought surfaced sharply when I read Lucio Russo’s The Forgotten Revolution ...

The best books come to me as gifts from my children. Michelle gave me The Forgotten Revolution , by Lucio Russo, for my birthday. It is subt...

Having just written a post on LaMarotte suggesting that finance reform should have taken draconian forms rather than the mild shape of the ...

A review of Francis Fukuyama’s latest ( The Origin of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution ) and, coincidentally, a...

February, by my calculation, celebrates its two thousand seven hundred and twenty-fourth birthday today, the month having been introduced in...

The strange thing to your left is the photo of something like a map; it is called the Rand McNally Histomap of World History , by John B. Sp...

In Canto XVIII of Dante’s Paradiso, we enter a high heaven, that of Jupiter, where warrior saints have their space of manifestation. And up ...

Several posts on Ghulf Genes deal with economics, always in a more or less cultural context; I tend to deal with the subject at a more tech...

Flet victus, victor interiit . The conquered mourns, the conqueror’s undone. [Roman proverb] When this old saw is carefully unpacked, a task...

Today’s headline in the Detroit Free Press was A NEW LEASE ON LIFE —a curious way of marking the fact that Chrysler has fallen into bankru...