So, I've been away from the Hall for a great while.  Mostly due to work picking up, but partly due to just falling out of the blog-readi...

Nice article about what it means to be an uncute animal with economic value to humans, or without economic value to humans.  The artic...

This kind of article is increasingly relevant in these days of global warm/cooling.  All of the advice sounds reasonable, but would there b...

As Paul Rahe notes at Ricochet, Putin understands very well that the only people facing any real threat from the President of the U.S. are ...

Well, they had the right institutional ties , anyway. Palin said [during the 2008 election campaign]: After the Russian Army invaded the na...

Prop-punk? I thought there was a subtext about WWII in this; pretty much ends up the same way, although there is also a nod to E. R. Edd...

Thirteen years ago,  Jonathan Rauch wrote about his creed of " soft communitarianism ," an alternative to both the most anarchic ...

Megan Kelly demolishes HHS Sec'y Sibelius.  Warning:  your President feels aggrieved that you might get information from this source. ...

Maybe you can do it without the horse .

It's a good idea to question what you see on the Internet. Maybe.

This post is mostly for Cassandra's enjoyment, because she'll like the article , but I'll take a moment to answer the question t...

An excerpt, for Tom but also for Cassandra, from Plato's great work on politics. But for one line, it sounds like something she has bee...

It ain't what it used to be .  Even the laziest and shallowest reviewer should have known there was something wrong with a paper entitle...

The authors of this piece assert that you won't get these jokes. I assume they know their audience. As for you ladies and gentlemen, I...

This brief article omits everything except a few pieces of pragmatic advice, but at least that makes it useful . Separately, that it is rig...

This is an outstanding essay , very much worth reading in full. None of you who spends time here will likely regret giving it your attention...

Ukraine has a revolution . The protests have been driven by a faction that wants to push away from the domination of Russia, and pursue t...

...it sounds like Ragnarok came early .

The countdown clock at the JORVIK Viking Center is under 20 hours at this writing. Hope you're prepared -- just in case.

Good red dirt country , and they put on a great show, if you can catch them . Here's three of theirs I like, though I haven't foun...