You may not hear the outdated term “dead peasant” insurance very often, but it describes a type of life insurance practice that is still used by corporations.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

In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture. By Fintan O’Toole Fintan O’Toole is the author of “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History ...

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 ...

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.