Entailment: Rand Paul, of whom I had heard once or twice in passing before a few days ago, is probably the most talked about man on the inte...

Enemies Are Good For You: An interesting proposition : Really gotta love results of UCLA research involving 2,003 middle school children tha...

Since We're Doing Music: ...and good lads from Texas, Doc Russia had a piece up just recently. He adds: Yeah, I look back at a lot of th...

"Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" Reason Magazine posts the winners . But you know, consider this claim: Similarly, the invocation of...

Daniel's Favorite: Our co-blogger Daneil, USMC, sends this as a favorite for the music thread:

Coq au Vin : We had one of those rare but prized visits from my sister, last night. I made a dish whose recipe allegedly dates to Julius Ca...

A Civil Servant's Poetry: Here lies what’s left of Michael Juster, A failure filled with bile and bluster. Regard the scuttlebutt as tru...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2010/04/19/did-vikings-really-wear-horned-helmets.aspx?obref=obnetwork Not sure I trust ...

...Is A Man's Best Hedge Against the Vague Uncertainties of Life. There's some fair practical advice on offer in this little bit of ...

The Tide: Two stories of interest about women and Islam. The more important is from Saudi Arabia . A member of the Commission for the Promo...

Beatus Vir : To Monteverdi we owe a substantial part of the transition from early music to the Baroque. Here is a motet, whose words are f...

Another Post on Consciousness and Science: Arguing against my position is this author from the Chronicle of Education , defending the new A...

In keeping with the Robin Hood theme, here are a few other archers. The first is from my most recent purchase at the Met - a book titled Bat...

Hope for the Future: I'm not sure which of these items I like better: the governor of California calls to end all state welfare , or th...

Robin Hood: I went to the new Robin Hood movie today, prepared to see Gladiator in cloaks; instead, I saw a genuinely remarkable and worthy...

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Confess: One of the hardest things to get smart people to do, whether philosophers or scientists, is to confess the hard limits to our knowl...

Back from the Land of the Dead: I have returned from my short journey to California. Southern California has a particular beauty, which can...

I'm watching a wonderful History Channel show on Robin Hood. Ridley Scott, Russell Crow, and various historians are all in it. I particu...