The Met Collection, II: Viking Swords Dellbabe sends some more of the photos she took for us. These swords include an Ulfberht blade: a n...

Good Friday: There are many celebrations today, to which I can add little. However, Dad29 posts a song that I happen to know. Here is the...

The Hero's Portion: I am today instituting an award for excellent service to the Hall. I'm naming it after the ancient tradition of...

"Putting the Ale in Female" Now that's a headline. Thanks, ladies . Jane Peyton, an author and historian, says the fairer sex...

Word of the Day: Vair " Vair (from Latin varius "variegated") is the heraldic representation of patches of squirrel fur in a...

Hooah: Now this is a film with timing. (H/t: Lars Walker .)

Self-Esteem: With the coyness of someone revealing a bizarre sexual taste, my patients would often say to me, "Doctor, I think I'm ...

"Seemingly Odd" Greg Sargent has the scales fall from his eyes. Almost. Yesterday I noted the seemingly odd finding by Gallup th...

Is it OK that Women are Different? An evolutionary psychologist joins our party . Thankfully, she goes beyond just differences in performanc...

"The First..." Shelby Steele posits an explanation for the off-the-cliff style of the current President . Reagan came into office ...

NYC Cops Field M-4-16 Submachinegun Assault Rifle Machine Gun Carbines: The NY Post needs to tighten up its shot group . Stand clear of the...

Plutarch's Lives I've had to go back and read a bit of this, and so I'll beg indulgence on the tardiness of it. Most often these...

What do Philosophers Believe? For those of you who follow modern philosophical debates, a survey of where philosophers shake out on cetain ...

Zenobia: Rather than let the book club lapse, here is another online reading you might do quickly. You don't have to read all of the Mo...

Palm Sunday: Jesus was a Horseman! Meeting my good friend Eric (who owes us some Plutarch readings) halfway on the subject of Holy Week, he...

Axe Phebus Aureo : A song of love; a translation into English is here .

A Message To Young Knights: As we are about to begin Holy Week, here is a message from a swordsman and a master of his craft. It concerns e...

Steyn Joins Convention Call: I always feel better when Mark Steyn sees things in the same way that seems right to me: Even Obama hasn’t yet...

A Knight Commander: The scientist who discovered the quark gives an interview: [I]n 1979, Polkinghorne surprised many with the announcement...

The Face of the Tea Party: ...is female, says Politico . "Many of the tea party’s most influential grass-roots and national leaders ar...