It is no shame to die for love. It has been the mark of many a noble death. It need not be a shame to kill for love, though it often is, b...

Why and how an institution gets money directed to it may be more important than how much it gets.  This morning's Wall Street Journal ar...

". . . Lord Vader, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."  This might be a good message for the author of " W...

There's been some talk about this essay in the Atlantic , which makes an extended case for reparations from the perspective of the harm ...

More on graphene:  How a greater fear of being boring than of being wrong led to levitating frogs and a Nobel prize .

Reading half a dozen reviews of Nicholas Wade's new book " A Troublesome Inheritance " had almost reduced me to despair of eve...

Two concerts stand at the very core of the Boomer mythos, Woodstock and Altamont. The one was good, the other evil . Woodstock was -- in s...

'And then it hit me! By which I mean, my wife pointed it out .' I wonder how much this insight applies to the one show -- which, ...

Well, this is encouraging .

One of the key problems in American foreign policy is always the maintenance of political will among the American people. It's hard to ...

Here's an exceedingly odd article in Foreign Policy about the accelerating collapse of Libya, because Republicans.  What I apparently d...

Tolkien's Beowulf is out today.

The FBI has issued a couple of interesting statements lately: worries about concentrated government power , and a confession of defeat in t...

The truth about the National Democratic Party: Communist or Sith ?

The president boasted that wait-times at the VA have been slashed by 50% in the last year. But wait, wasn't there some kind of scanda...

Sometimes judgment may be legitimate .

In the run-up to the celebrations attending the 700th anniversary -- 23 June, remember -- BBC Two has put together a fairly neat short histo...

Health insurance rates too high in California?   No problem , we'll respond just as we did to unruly prices on other necessities.  Remem...

Mark Steyn remarks on the fourth anniversary of the disappearance of cartoonist Molly Norris : [Four years ago] You may have noticed that ...

P. J. O'Rourke has posted a spirited defense of Madame Rice, a harsh indictment of Rutgers' institutional culture and college educa...