These are men who make sense to me . It is common at closed social gatherings to hear even young officers... seething at what they perceive ...

A very merry Thanksgiving to you all.  Here are some photos designed to allow you to share in our feast. This was my first year c...

I have many faults and lack many spiritual gifts, but one duty I've never found difficult is gratitude.  I know how lucky I am, and how ...

InstaPundit , for some reason, has been sending a lot of linkage toward PUA sites who want to comment on General Petraeus. Now, military cu...

Once in a while Pandora still finds most interesting things. Here is a band I had never heard of before tonight, called Flatfoot 56 : A...

Our old friend Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a fantastic piece , too good to excerpt. Read it carefully.

How old is Earth? It's an interesting question. What does it mean to be old? It means to have survived long in time. So in order to...

The first part of Politics Book III treats the question of what a state exactly is, and what it means to be a citizen. Here arises questi...

One of the most thoughtful and proper reforms instituted after the 2010 Tea Party victories in the House was a requirement that bills contai...

It's helpful to have that line from Pulp Fiction in your mind while you watch this video.

Federal and state governments set a floor on the price of milk that costs American consumers about $5 billion a year, while protecting dairy...

Or is it the other way round?  I never can remember.  There seems to be similar confusion developing about how to halt the metastasis of gov...

Ross Douthat: What unites all of these stories is the growing failure of America’s local associations — civic, familial, religious — to fo...

According to Dr. Mead, we don't much care about Just War . Readers of Special Providence know that I’ve written about four schools of A...

I have many sins, but not this one . To really live, to really love, to really be ready to kill and to die for the things to which you are...

Headline: "Our brain can do unconscious mathematics ."

Doc Russia used to quote "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" from time to time. A great bet is underway, a poker game with stake...

A couple of articles today: one on the potential for cheap shale oil to reshape the world in ways beneficial to America, and the other aga...

Lest we forget our mission to read through the Politics , let's finish the rest of book two today (or this weekend, as you have time). ...

Thank you for the apologies; although it was clear at the time that most of you were simply playing off the original jape. I think,...