What he gave me was a disquisition on the theory and history of American health-care financing going back to Lyndon Johnson and the creation of Medicare, the upshot of which was: (1) Government is the problem in health care.

NEWYORKER: The Cost Conundrum

Most of Mr Gingrich's article was a disquisition on the dangers inherent in forming a common European currency.

ECONOMIST: Gingrich��s mirage

Here the book ventures deep into academia with Origen's disquisition on this event, how Eustathius of Antioch demolished his arguments, and how Titus Oates and Lodowick Muggleton got in on the act a long way from the burlesque theatre.

ECONOMIST: Ventriloquism