The Absence of Honor: Perhaps Dan Riehl qualifies as a "conservative blogger" in some sense, but not in any sense that matters t...

I'm Sorry, But This Is A Really Strange Thing To Do: The Texas Board of Education drops Thomas Jefferson from its early modern politica...

Dangerous Work: Via Arts & Letters Daily , a story about working in the Arctic . If something happens, and you leave your vehicle, you w...

Cooking with Cast Iron: Instapundit links this enthusiastic chef on cast iron cooking. Here at the Hall, I cook with little else. I have...

Pairings: Pairing one: Gallup: more and more Americans think Global Warming is exaggerated . TWS: A five page report on Climate Change fra...

The Death of the Euro: The Economist has a five page article on the troubles in Europe . They call for a limited bailout, coupled with new...

The Funniest Thing She's Ever Written: From Maureen Dowd , on her trip to Saudi Arabia: Couldn’t Mecca, I asked the royals, be opened to...

Hooah! Bill Whittle, in rare form -- as he might be, speaking of one of his own . My brother Steve is a year younger than me. Right around a...

Correcting the Ill-Mannered: I was visiting beautiful Athens, Georgia, today; and after I finished my business there I went to get some coff...

The Holmgang: Our friend Lars Walker has finished his series on the history of the Holmgang. You might wish to read through the three-part ...

Snowmelt, Cherokee National Forest:

Thor's Hall on Gun Magazines: It's not just gun rags that do this : HOW GUN MAGAZINES WRITE ARTICLES Instruction From The Editor To ...

The Mystic and the Muse: Mr. Douthat, whom I first encountered only last week, has a most interesting piece on mysticism. Mysticism is dyin...

Grim's Hall Book Club: Next Work When I first proposed the concept for the club, I had intended that the second book would be Nelson Le...

A Clash of Cultures: Mr. Brooks says the Tea Party members are "Wal-Mart Hippies." I take it he thinks that's a clever line,...

Other Writers on the Jews and Tolkien: We discussed this issue a few days ago . The main thing seemed to me that the Jews aren't really...

Americaland: When we lived in China, there was a theme park near Hang Zhou that was called "Americaland." It was supposed to be a...

ARMA Art, I: The ARMA has quite a gallery of Medieval and Renaissance art associated with questions of battle. Here is one: The clear effe...

My Father Sends... ...a story about a cowboy. A cowboy from Texas attends a social function where Barack Obama is trying to gather support...

"Chivalry & Solidarity in Ultimatum Games" An interesting game theory experiment from 2001 appears to show that women find it...