From the Archives , 2008: The most dangerous question Sen. Obama has ever had to face is, "Who are you?" Archives , 2010: From the...

...and it's still Saturday, for a few minutes. Here's one on Ancient Scotland .

As part of an article about a major feat in Chess, an introduction to the governing body : As the tournament began on Aug. 27, Carlsen was m...

Though apparently a conservative on the right side of many things, when Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is no Aristotle . A little history: The first ...

Ain't it a shame. (Sung, appropriately enough, by Bon Scott) (sorry, couldn't resist)

House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow, said: “An 84 per cent turnout, rallies in the streets, and intelligent, informed debates are all the ...

So today Athens, Georgia was turned upside down for a little while in the middle of the afternoon by an old-fashioned bomb threat. Actually...

One of the most damning facts about Rotherdam was the ways in which the police departments not only did not stop the abuses, but lost evide...

AEI reports that there's a move afoot to ensure that schoolkids learn some basic civics facts: [On September 17,] the Civics Educatio...

If you follow Andrew Bacevich's writing , you probably can guess that this online course is not going to be very complimentary to the Un...

Since we're doing Scottish songs of independence, here's a folk tune about William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. The chorus is from...

This "Highland Muster Roll" is said to date from the Fifteen, the first of the two disastrous Jacobite Rebellions, one in 1715 a...

Bill Whittle closes with an urging to "get sensible people behind the loom of history." I'm surprised a man of his educatio...

Boswell did, over and over : Here we find the practising barrister, who regularly defended individuals against capital charges, reporting ex...

Are the 'neck and neck' polls in Scotland on independence wrong ? We saw something like that happen in the Eric Cantor race here, s...

Evidence of reverent funerals is often taken as a sign of cognitive function in early man.

The buck may or may not stop moving somewhere between here and there: One comes away from Baker’s account with the sense what what reall...

We've gone beyond " WRDC and are CMTS " and are solidly into "there's going to be some kind of coalition at some poi...