Ghulf Genes

Although a rush of business has diverted time from this blog—and it looks as if it will continue to do so for some time to come—I wished to...

I came across a piece of Baby Boom Babble in the Business Section of the New York Times today. On the lead page is this headline: “Taking ...

Present consensus appears to be that the Holy Roman Empire (HRE) extended in time from the coronation of Otto I, Duke of Saxony, as Emper...

Marking the death of Gabriel García Márquez yesterday at age eighty-seven. Monique gave me his One Hundred Years of Solitude long ago as a...

Pandemics were a major aspect of life in the Middle Ages. They left in their train regions and cities sometimes robbed of half of more of a...

Attila the Hun ushered in the Middle Ages and that period ended when another Turkic tribe, the Ottomans, captured Constantinople. I began t...

When I set out to write this post, I was surprised at the dearth of female figures in the early Medieval period—thus up to about the year ...

Long ago now, while reading about the Ottoman empire, I came across a potent observation, probably by Arnold Toynbee. It was to the effec...

In the case of McCutchem et al vs Federal Election Commission , a case decided last Wednesday, the Supreme Court, voting 5-4, decided that ...