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William J. Quirk

William J. Quirk was a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and a former contributing editor of The New Republic. He died in September 2014.

Good Fences Make Good Bankers

Good Fences Make Good Bankers

Too Big to Fail Becomes Too Big to Jail: an Update

by William J. Quirk | Friday, March 01, 2013
Federal Student-Loan Sharks

Federal Student-Loan Sharks

Why is the government gouging our college kids? The new law on loan rates just makes things worse

by William J. Quirk | Thursday, September 05, 2013
Living on $500,000 a Year

Living on $500,000 a Year

What F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns reveal about his life and times

by William J. Quirk | Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Too Big to Fail and Too Risky to Exist

Too Big to Fail and Too Risky to Exist

Four years after the 2008 financial crisis, banks are behaving more recklessly than ever

by William J. Quirk | Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Too Bad Not to Fail

Too Bad Not to Fail

Just what are derivatives, and how much more damage can they do?

by William J. Quirk | Tuesday, June 01, 2010

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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