Vrroom: Mark Steyn notes the political success of fascists in Europe: [I]n the western half of Continental Europe, politics evolved to the ...

"Tolk"? A list of reasons someone likes Tolkien : 3) The Watcher in the Water Dude. That totally was cool. I mean, say what you li...

Men & Women At Work: Cassandra has a good post today on women and the workplace . Her aside in the comments is also an interesting conj...

Bitter: So, the APA has come up with yet another way in which you might be crazy. Last time it was something to do with spending too much t...

Water Maids: SO THEY RODE till they came to a lake, the which was a fair water and broad, and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an...

Fear and Hate: So this was written even as John Bolton ponders an Israeli strike on Iran. This brief survey demonstrates why Israel's ...

Battles Lost and Losing: The American Knife and Tool Institute (AKTI) finds itself, today, in a difficult position. It wants to draw your e...

Chastity: Along the way to defining 'right drinking,' Scruton imagines what he calls "true chastity" for an analogy. This...

Virtue and Vine: Roger Scruton has a piece on the virtue of drinking. He is aiming at the Aristotlean balance between vice ("vicious ...

So, to day is June 6th. 65 years ago today, a whole lot of American, British, Canadian, and French soldiers stormed Fortress Europe. General...

Scratch four flattops! So, today is June 4. I have read that the Japanese intended to rename Midway "The Glorious Month of June" a...

On Prostitution: Cassandra, that delightful woman, has once again deleted a discussion thread just as I was beginning to enjoy it. :) We had...

Heraldry, IV: I mentioned 2/1 Armor had just returned home to Germany. Here is some of the heraldry they left behind. Sadly, the last one r...

For Grim: Storm that fort! Looks like the Russians remember too.

Heraldry III: This one's for Eric. I think that heraldry is a lot like poetry: the best of it comes from the most strict traditions. I...

Heraldry, Part II: Task Force Dragon At various times, units of different sizes have held the distinction of being "task forces" ...

Heraldy, Part I: One of the things I admire about the US Army is its devotion to the traditions of heraldry. The US Army's College of H...

North Korea Tests Second Nuclear Device, Fires Short-Range Missiles Korea made its second test of a nuclear explosive on Monday and declared...

Game Theory: Let's play a game . Now Congress is moving to limit the penalties on riskier borrowers, who have become a prime source of b...

Cannibals! One of the interesting sections from the paper we've been discussing is the Turkish view of the Franks as cannibals: Other Mu...