Para Bellum : [A]ll the multiple-victim public shootings in Western Europe have occurred in places where civilians are not permitted to carr...

Less Anecdotal Evidence: This is the sort of thing that warms my heart . The Lexington County Republican Party on Thursday night asked GOP s...

A Libertarian Question on the Recent Spill: Samizdata asks a question : One issue for us free marketeers is this: we like to talk about how ...

Grim's Hall Book Club: The Way Forward I think I would like to take Eric up on his suggestion that we do another round of Plutarch befo...

On Fairies: Joe recently made a remark on the subject of fairies . As he raised it in a memorial post to someone he admired, I didn't w...

China and the West: 1680 Edition Via Arts & Letters Daily , a remarkable piece on how East and West met in earlier times. The particul...

The Hat Makes the Man: ...and the man makes the dog . (Hat tip to T99, who should remember that she has posting rights here.) Maggie's ...

Forty-Five Minutes: It's a big chunk of your day. But watch it.

Anecdotal Evidence: Still, it does make one feel better about our neighbors in South Carolina. Their allegations may ultimately help Ms. Ha...

Gerard van der Leun, of the blog American Digest, from time to time has a little feature he calls "something wonderful" when he co...

This one goes with Grim's story of the Marine carrying his girlfriend up the mountain. Semper Fi, she says. Indeed. And here is a lit...

Grim's Hall Book Club: It's been a while since we had a book club entry. While I suppose Zelda's Ogre counts as reading, in a ...

Scruton on Cyborgs: Roger Scruton takes on an old debate of ours, and looks forward : The belief that humanity makes moral progress depends ...

Confer: Against spirituality in academia : The kind of research Poloma and her colleagues propose, however empirical and peer-reviewed, seem...

Editing the Mind: We can now edit photographs far better than ever before. What happens when can edit memories to go with the new photos? ...

I Imagine They Were: Mr. Daylrymple writes : No subject provokes the deformations of sympathy more than poverty. I recalled this recently wh...

The BLADE Show: So today I went down to the BLADE Show , the annual exposition of Blade magazine. It was all the way down in Atlanta, but ...

History and Now: Did the Founders have all the answers ? If a "tea party" event is where the disaffected go to protest the present...

Crush at BLACKFIVE writes about an attempt to lie about a veteran's combat record, in a South Carolina election. According to officia...