More links from Not Exactly Rocket Science . Your brain knows more than you think . Your gut won't give you a good answer about a compl...

A nagging millstone, or the "still, small voice"? A mild electro-therapy to the brain is said to quiet the internal cacophony an...

The New Criterion has an article called "The New Old Lie," which treats the current demand that war always be treated as essenti...

xkcd has it nailed . You can't beat this without hitting bottom.  And once you've hit bottom, you're not looking down on other...

The spring is upon us.  And so, a song: It has a name that honors the generation before the one currently fecund; but without them, how ...

The senators most aligned with the TEA Party have produced legislation designed not merely to balance the budget, but to create a surplus w...

Volokh comments on an interesting case  that shows something of the limits of our legal approach to the world.  American laws are based on a...

Ms. Fawzia Koofi, an Afghan Member of Parliament who survived a Taliban attempt on her life, worries that a recent ruling by the Afghan Ulem...

By now you will have heard that one of the most famous, and most justly famous, of the milbloggers died when his fighter crashed yesterday. ...

My father was a long-time Captain of the local Volunteer Fire Department.  Thus I know, and have had it impressed upon me since I was quite ...

Megan McArdle, whose columns and comment boards I so enjoy, is taking a sabbatical to work on a large project. She arranged for a handful o...

It's election day in Georgia, and I just went and cast the shortest ballot I ever did:  there was exactly one question before the electo...

The surprise here is how interesting the subject turns out to be : In 1890, 90 percent of the country's bread was baked in homes. The ...

...but apparently that's the wave of the future. The movie will apparently be called "Brave," but at this point, it might ...

Our friends at Samizdata continue to chronicle the disaster that is the modern state from a British perspective . [A man] drowned in a sh...

In a post aimed at the late Andrew Breitbart -- of whom I know fairly little -- The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates cites the history of SN...

Objectively, spring is still almost a month away.  Subjectively, it was eighty degrees and sunny today, and the pear trees have broken out ...

Parents should be able to kill their newborns, argue a panel of ethicists in a new paper , because they are not actually people; they are on...

One of our own has apparently decided to hang it out in the wind. His book on Fallujah is the best book I know of on that part of the I...

I've begun watching the early episodes of a show called "Breaking Bad," about a high-school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque w...