With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick…" According to the "Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem, Santa Claus has aged well, still getting around ...

While everyone is pretty familiar with Santa Claus in a general sense, there is more to jolly old St. Nick than we often get to see: How old is Santa? Where does Santa live? What is Santa's real name?

We continue a tradition this year by reprinting a holiday classic in our Christmas edition of the Independent Review. The following letter and editorial response appeared in ...

Nicholas, Babbo Natale, Santa Claus: The jolly old man with a white beard is an unmistakable figure around the United States, but he didn’t always wear a red coat and have a reindeer posse.