With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I ….

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday..

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote..

Coolidge and his treasury secretary Mellon loved new technology. Like JFK, C.C. divined that a new technology could lift the nation out of its doldru….

The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject..

Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us..

Fame is worth less than service..

To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one gre….

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with..

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfo….

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government bud….

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of ….

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux Klan faded, and Americ….

Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes brought in extra revenue. ….

Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history. Econ affects history and history….

In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it bigger and more efficient, in the same wa….

If Coolidge were a stock, he'd be a buy. The experts have historically ranked Coolidge in the bottom quartile or bottom half of all presidents. But h….

Coolidge cut the budget, and even better, cut it during peace and prosperity. He left a federal budget lower than the one that greeted him when he ar….

Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corrupti….

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say….

Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget..