The Learning Shelf

Scanning through notes from books I’ve read, as the new year barrels forward I’m looking for insights on time.  My first find emphasizes the giant....

Some observers have blamed it on such technical causes as the German system of proportional representation. If Germany had used the American system of allotting....

“Before the French came among us we were men,” a Natchez tribal leader said in November 1729; and soon his tribe organized a vicious attack....

A great joy happened this morning; the first morning of a new year.   I woke up with an incredible lower back ache, struggling under....