This column was originally published on the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research Weekly Commentary ...

Garth Greenwell's “Small Rain,” in which a poet falls ill and confronts mortality, the meaning of art and the failures of health care, won the PEN/Faulkner ...

"Our songs are alive in the land of the living. But songs are unlike literature. They’re meant to be sung, not read." ...

Our record in economics is even more astounding. Of the 96 recipients, 63 are Americans. We overrepresent Nobel Prizes in ...