“Whereas the Honourable the General Congress, impressed with a grateful sense of the goodness of Almighty God, in blessing the greater part of this extensive continent with plentiful harvests, crowning our arms with repeated successes, conducting us hitherto safely through the perils with which we have been encompassed and manifesting in multiplied instances his divine […]
The Sun King, Louis XIV of France, built the lavish Palace of Versailles outside of Paris, and encouraged his nobility to wait on him there. The enormous sums of money needed to maintain the palace and its residents were provided by the third class of French society, the working class. The first and second classes […]
“Last fall semester, I didn’t teach for the first time in 37 years. No, I haven’t retired. It was my semester-off reward for two terms as department chairman at George Mason University. A break is well deserved after a chairmanship — a job not unlike that of herding cats. During fall semesters, I typically teach our first-year Ph.D. microeconomics […]