I've been reading Atul Gawande's fine new book, " Being Mortal ," about that perennial favorite topic of mine, our insanel...

Enough about political leanings.   Here are the important distinctions among states. Our household is split 50/50 on this critical metric...

Russell Moore on the City of Houston's subpoena of anti-gay sermons: Every authority, under God, is limited. Daniel is obedient to Ki...

Gillespie's plan sounds like an improvement to me, even when reviewed in relentlessly hostile terms.

It gets harder and harder to tell : The shocking competence gap and the cavernous honesty gap — brought to you by the “most transparent admi...

I think Fred and Ginger would have approved.

. . . and other hogwash from Politico . 1. It would choke off aid and could worsen the outbreak. Politico argues that a charter flight ...

I'm going to talk about this case that Instapundit mentions , about a transgender student who is now disqualified from serving in electe...

What better way to induce the economy to misallocate resources than to use federal dollars and/or regulations to bribe and/or extort people ...

Here's what I think we're missing about how vigilant we need to be about Ebola contagion:  the low level of common-sense concern tha...

Ace has up a handful of new posts about the steady trickle of disquieting Ebola reports. HotAir has others. For instance, are you thrill...

Stories about workable fusion reactors are a dime a dozen, but this one actually seems to be on the level, though--obviously--preliminary.

This is a pretty substantial piece on chemical weapons encountered by US forces in Iraq . There are a number of charges that 'the milit...

One of the lessons I've learned in my long and valued correspondence with Cassandra is that men must sometimes criticize women on moral ...

Volunteers are willing to go, but getting through the legal red tape on our side of the Atlantic is proving daunting. UPDATE: Related .

Or maybe not .

There's a certain amount of talking-past-each-other between secular legal scholars and Christian thinkers on the subject of whether ma...

Don't do rock music much here at the Hall, but I'll make an exception this morning.

Clearly a rush to judgment .

Tell me again what's wrong with a quarantine ? Not an inflexible travel ban, just a hold on incoming traffic while we either run a rapi...