The Franco-American Flophouse has moved

Before Christmas I was talking to an older woman I know from church.  One of her daughter-in-laws is American (fancy that) and she is both p...

At last a book about the beast, FATCA. I read Robert Morris'  FATCA and the New Birth of American Empire  in one sitting a few weeks a...

"Migration produces diasporas, and diasporas produce migration:  which is the chicken and which is the egg?" Paul Collier Exodu...

Went to bed in 2013 and woke up in 2014.  Not even the youngsters frolicking in the street outside my house last night could disturb my slum...

The 1950's were a particularly dark period in American history.  Lives, careers, and families were destroyed in the search for the enemy...

Peter Spiro, author of one of my favorite citizenship books, Beyond Citizenship:  American Identity After Globalization has published this ...

It is cold and clear here the day after Christmas.  Sunny and dry enough, in fact, to finish the fall cleanup in the garden this afternoon. ...