You may not hear the outdated term “dead peasant” insurance very often, but it describes a type of life insurance practice that is still used by corporations. Corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) is ...

WHY Reymont rather than Hardy? Everyone is asking this question concerning the last winner of the Nobel Prize. And naturally: the pictures of peasant life given by the two have many points in common.

Historian Joyce (The Rule of Freedom) draws on his family’s background in Ireland to provide an insightful and evocative homage to the peasant way of life, which has been the dominant human experience ...