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December 17, 2012

Weeks of December 17 and 24, 2012

Up Front

Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday?
Stephen Mitsuo Higa

We hear this "fact" a lot, but there's little in the historical record about non-Greco-Roman, non-Christian religions in Europe.

The New Age of Austerity
Iwan Morgan

What any student of Econ 101 should have known, bu the pols in the UK didn't.