“I was not old enough to fight in World War II. But I was old enough to feel the great upsurge in selfless community that animated most on the ‘Home Front.’ A job…

“Your neighbor is no longer that millionaire next door. He is quite likely to be a renter whose house, sold on a ‘short sale,’ was bought by real estate speculators with money borrowed…

“Drew Faust, the distinguished American historian, recently alluded to the paradox that it is the very unintelligibility of war that fuels historians’ interminable attempts to explore it. But is war so unintelligible? Stupid…

“As the reader no doubt recalls, after the assassination, Austria presented Serbia with an ultimatum. Serbia appeared to accept most of it, though really did not, and proceeded to mobilize. Russia then mobilized…

“Thus, to avoid giving the Irish their rights, reactionary Britishers helped to foment a war that, together with a second war spawned by this first one, effectively ended the British empire of which these people were…

“Fashions in historiography change. Today, books about WW I flood the market. Of special concern are the origins of what has always been appropriately dubbed ‘The Great War.’” Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense…

“In 1908, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary formally annexed the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which it had administered for the previous 30 years. That maddened Serbia, because there were lots of Serbs…

“As a result of Grey’s actions, France, confident of Britain’s backing, encouraged Russia to become more militaristic and uncompromising in its attitude to both Germany and its satellite, Austria-Hungary. The net result was…

“There is another type of medical-study fallacy that borders on residual confounding. Consider the recently released meta-analysis (analysis of other analyses) of the relationship between obesity and mortality. It allegedly found that being…

“Conservatives indeed feel happier than liberals. Why? Liberals, or at least some of them, characterize this contentment as ‘ignorance is bliss.’” Sanford Rose Dolors & Sense By Sanford Rose KISSIMMEE Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—3/25/2013—Well, they…