Representative Democracy: The people have spoken. Now get to work.

Kindness to Others: Douglas, in the comments to the post on Beauty and Desecration, remarked: "Bring back true chivalry, bring back th...

A Word, Or Rather Not, In Defense of Mrs. Clinton: I would rise to the defense of our Secretary of State against baseless slander , but fran...

Medieval Music: There is a line in the Cantiga 119 video, below, that states that "The use of fifths, coupled with unique phrasing, giv...

Sex, Necessity, and the Tale: I've been following this series of posts, and even made a sketch at a response . But today's entries...

Crying Wolf and Modern Politics: Some of you may have missed Elise's comment on the post below re: the New York Post report that Obama...

Duty to Die: Well, you've probably seen this interview: The President appears to be saying not that the 105 year old lady should have ch...

Music from Cassandra: Cassandra has a post today that I'm tempted to steal reproduce in full. Instead, I'm going to pull my favor...

Moonrise .

"Beauty and Desecration" Roger Scruton has an important piece City Journal by that title . Readers of the Hall will be familiar ...

Why The Gov't Can't Be Trusted to Reform Health Care: Seriously? One troubling provision of the House bill compels seniors to submit...

"Own to Rent": So, how bad an idea is this ? The plan would let borrowers who have fallen behind on their mortgage payments avoid ...

Why E-books suck . This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously d...

Service: Why? There's a badly run bar near my house. Used to be a drunk bar -- for probably 50 years. It was quiet then. A good neighbor...

Liberals: Mark Tapscott writes in praise of a liberal : This may come as a shock to some but a liberal college professor was among the most ...

No-Bid Contracts: Goodness, how can this be ? The Defense Department frequently awards no-bid work to small contractors for repairs at milit...

The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games: So it was, this year, fine flags flying amid cloud and rain and sun. If you missed it, I'm sor...

Pain and Valor: The greatest leap of faith at the root of our foundations is the declaration that it is self-evident that all men are create...

And our machines will eat you, too : A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel i...

The Ride Home: We have come out of the Wild, having stopped tonight at an inn with an Internet connection. It was an eventful trip, besides...