Music of Honor: It's been too long since we had a post devoted to music, which is at the core of our visions of beauty. Here is an old ...

How good an officer would you have been ? I got a 72 despite arguing with superiors (imagine that).

Muslim Lesbians in the Middle Ages: On the topic of people who stand up for what they believe, I have to express a certain admiration for t...

Hooah, Sir: Now, that sounds like a man who cares about what he thinks is right. I might differ on the question of what he thinks is right,...

Rhetoric: "A Mongrel People." Did he really say that ? “Mongrel” is one of those words so loaded with negative connotations that ...

TEOTWAWKI: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Megan McArdle is discussing anthropogenic global warming today, in the old-fashioned sense o...

Grim said something the other day about how the expression "Live by the sword, die by the sword" struck him as more of a promise t...

The Heart of the Bruce: A sword commissioned in 1705, whose blade dates to the time of Robert the Bruce, sold for ten thousand pounds. Bth...

A Frenchman, a Russian, and a Scandinavian Walk Into a Bar This Arab/Israeli and male/female dispute (see below) has inspired me to engage i...

Sex, Lies, and Fraud in the Inducement Here's a story about how our notion of fraud and crime can get tangled up in times of radical ch...

Another Answer to Fermi's Paradox? If universes nest in black holes , and the event horizon of black holes (largely?) prevent informatio...

Is This the Party to Whom I Am Speaking? HotAir links to this New York Times article about the White House's difficulties reaching Shi...

The End of Love and the Madness of the Ruling Class: If there is one thing that divides the remnant of ordinary America from the political c...

The Saga of Burnt Njal , Week Three: Here is this week's readings ; and here is next week's . We are about to enter into the real bl...

Who Goes Nazi? Someone at Bookwoom Room linked to an old 1941 Harper's essay that's been posted on the web, part of that magazine...

Night Is to Day As War Is to . . . . . . Sissies? Ed Schultz, the MSNBC commentator, made waves this week by complaining that President Obam...

Shouldn't Maureen Dowd Have Seen That Coming? Ann Althouse quotes from Maureen Dowd's loopy analysis of l'affaire Sherrod , inc...

The First Rule About Jane Austen Darleen at Protein Wisdom strikes a blow for Austen fans. "Is that your blood?" "Oh -- ye...

The Way: Next morning Alveric came up the tower to the witch Ziroonderel, weary and frantic from searching all night long in strange places ...

Unicorns, Scientifically Considered This starts a little slow, but it's only a couple of minutes long and I think he'll have persua...