Olin Foundation, Right-Wing Tank, Snuffing Itself

Shortly before 4 o’clock on a crisp April afternoon, James Piereson, the executive director of the John M. Olin Foundation, sat in the foundation’s sparse conference room in midtown, looking like a man who had just devoured a particularly satisfying steak.

“I guess I would say, looking back on this period, that it’s worked out Read More

Want an Extra $110K a Year? Forget the Raise-Say ‘I Do’

How much is your wife or husband worth? Around £70,000 ($110,000) a year, according to Andrew Oswald, economics professor at the University of Warwick in Britain, and Andrew Clark, of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.

In a paper that will be presented to a British Association Festival of Science conference being Read More