Apples and Oranges Assistant Village Idiot never seems to fail to have something interesting and useful to say. This week, he mined a coup...

Starvation While pundits in the U.S. prattle about the epidemic of obesity among the poor, North Korea shows us what real poverty looks like...

On Dr. Codevilla's Article: "America's Ruling Class and the Perils of Revolution" Dr. Angelo Codevilla, professor emeritu...

Sea Changes Jonah Goldberg wonders whether the political world is on the verge of important change for the better: For nearly a century now...

Who Writes This Stuff? Via Little Miss Attila , this " review " of the action series "World War II": Probably the worst ...

Jeffersonian Roots: Let's do three history pieces in a row: here's one on Jeffersonian thinking and its return to relevance. Cons...

A Theory about Rome: So, having just entertained a theory about feudal England, let's consider a question about Rome . Eric, I'm lo...

Liberty By Law: I've encountered today an interesting article on the subject of how the Anglo-American tradition of liberty arose. We a...

White Flash: There seems to be a scripting error with the site; T99 reported it, and I've encountered it as well. The screen suddenly g...

Intellectuals: In The New Republic : Although it’s deeply politically incorrect to say so, intellectually, things were better under the Bush...

I could think of lots of worse things to be doing than to be making armor in Poland . LUBLIN, Poland (Reuters) – Just like his Medieval coun...

Respect and Women: I've been following Cassandra's despair over this nonsense , and it occurs to me that someone should point out a...

Threats or Promises? As the November elections approach, we hear a good deal of doubt about whether they can be expected to make a differenc...

Folías de España : I'll join Eric in giving honor to the Spanish for their victory in soccer, though to my mind the far greater honor is...

La Belle Homicide : There is a particularly awesome version of this on this record , but I see no version online. It is amazing; this video...

From the writings of the Venerable Bede, an analogy from an ancient British pagan. It comes from the period of the conversion of Northumbri...

On the Twelfth of July: I nearly forgot. "King Billy" would be William of Orange , who came to fight the Jacobites of the Scottish...

World Cup Result.

The round table. Or hall. Or something like that . Researchers exploring the legend of Britain’s most famous Knight believe his stronghold ...

Wisdom and Education: Here's an article that jumps right into Neo-Platonism as it affects a current debate among scientists. Is there s...