The Honourable James Buchan (born 11 June 1954) is a Scottish novelist and historian. Read full biography of James Buchan →
For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or... →
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of... →
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of... →
Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's... →
The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing... →
The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago... →
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business... →
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision... →
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not... →
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of... →
The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of... →
The Honourable James Buchan (born 11 June 1954) is a Scottish novelist and historian.