The streetlights were out. Fire hydrants weren't working. Police couldn't always come when called. City payroll checks were bouncing. Public meetings were absurdly chaotic and there was no end in ...

I recently heard Peggy Noonan, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and presidential speechwriter, quote a line from Ernest Hemingway's book The Sun Also Rises: “Gradually, then suddenly.” She used ...

That line from Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises” reveals a lot about the way catastrophe happens. Tragedy strikes, as if out of the blue. But in retrospect, we realize that disaster was ...

The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk signals a troubling new chapter in America’s political violence, former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan said. Kirk, 31, died after he was shot ...

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Hemingway’s great contribution to financial economics, and life wisdom generally, applies to intellectual bankruptcy as well. Old ideas retain their grip on public opinion long after they have lost ...

Detroit's historic bankruptcy will be in the spotlight on the opening night of this year's Freep Film Festival. “Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit” will get its first public ...

Police couldn't always come when called. City payroll checks were bouncing. Public meetings were absurdly chaotic and there was no end in sight to the service cuts and government dysfunction ...

In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway's drunken, brawling character, Mike Campbell, responds to the question, "How did you go bankrupt?" with this answer: "Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly." ...