In conversation with AVI's thoughts on misinterpretations in the history of heredity where he brings up the natural philosopher, astrol...

Someone admitted this woman to the clergy . Not sure whose. She’s very earnest; she has an argument, even. 

I admit that it took me a while to get into this article because of some of the rhetoric, which reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson's decla...

A genuine step forward to try to overturn unconstitutional state laws -- even ones that have been allowed to persist for decades .  The Just...

The MIT Press Reader has a story today about how we learned that the NSA had begun spying on Americans in the wake of the Patriot Act. Mos...

Clever . It reminds me of what the cyberpunk novels called 'skillsofts,' except you don't have to jack anything into your head; ...

“Yuan” isn’t actually the name of the Chinese currency; it is called the Renminbi (人民币), or “People’s Currency.” “Yuan” is what is called a...

In the comments to a post at AVI's that began with an interesting character, I noted that pirates were pretty common among the English ...

Megan McArdle proposes what she clearly intends as 'a modest proposal' on firearms ; but she's quite right. Maybe we’re looking ...

A new report argues that our popular understanding of Iran’s mid-20th century history is almost completely wrong . 

A curious decision by the local Jackson County Chamber of Commerce as to what they wanted to highlight about their community, but who am I t...

Reliable sources are reporting the death of Outlaw Country legend David Allan Coe.  He was one of the last of the greats, and a true Outlaw;...

 With the Supreme Court's solid ruling in Louisiana v Calais et al. , next up, I say, is partisan gerrymandering, gerrymandering by poli...

Willie Nelson is 93 today. 

Coffee and Covid notes a disturbing pattern in these assassination attempts. (H/t D29 ). Taken together, the three attempts highlight a par...

In a comment to a post below, Tom was asking if anyone is still looking for common ground. The President of Dartmouth is .  When an encampme...

This is shockingly brutal . Did he seed the audience?

Now since all of you suffered through the long commentary on the EN last summer, which is available on the sidebar if you wish to revisit it...

Usually a manifesto contains some sort of model for improvement that justifies revolutionary violence. This one does not . I infer from this...

Just as an aside, the shooter who went up against several Federal police agencies at the White House Correspondents' Dinner was armed so...

The Heterodox Academy, which is doing good work in trying to create space for viewpoint diversity in American universities, is holding an ev...

In the comments to the earlier post about the SPLC's criminal problems , I commented: "It sounds like the allegations aren't r...