Looking back, I remember the elfin charm about him, which you generally do not associate with economists. He was a rightist who feasted on mythology. He was a gadfly who could be charming.

Ancient Greek mythology features numerous monsters, including ones that lived in the sea such as mysterious mermaids and ...

East Lyme ― A local gadfly already barred by a judge from harassing town employees was arrested at the polls Tuesday after police say he acted in a belligerent manner toward a registrar of ...

Al Morella, a sonorous crusader for truth as a regular at Jefferson Parish government meetings who spent decades hurling tough questions, pointed criticism, curious asides and sporadic praise at ...

Reincarnation and afterlife was a tradition among the ancient Greeks. Writers expressed the view that the souls of the dead ...

New snail species named after "The Lord of the Rings" characters have been found in Brazil. These troglobitic snails, adapted ...

One of the wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood for millennia, wearing natural and manmade disasters. A ...

In Greek mythology, the Titan ruler Kronos fears that his children will usurp him, so he eats each baby soon after their ...

Age of Mythology will forever be one of the all-time great strategy games, but now its glorious, modern-day remake lets you experience it like never before. Age of Mythology Retold is already ...

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...

Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the Rings.

With a weekly newsletter and plenty of charm, the left-wing writer Claud Cockburn became a crucial polemical voice of the 20th century. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed ...