So, I encountered the following badge on Facebook: That is a shocking claim, isn't it? I decided to try and see if it was true. Th...

Matt Walsh writes : The answer is clear. We object to the baker or the photographer refusing to service gay weddings because we’ve deemed th...

The correlations are legitimate, but...

This is a fairly basic principle , and it's hard to see how you can work around the disagreement. During an National Rifle Association e...

Secretary of State John Kerry : We've said from day one that if North Korea wants to rejoin the community of nations, it knows how to d...

If you've been wondering how thoroughly an Ebola case in New York City would convulse the nation's media outlets, wonder no more.  J...

So apparently in the confines of academia, there's a sense that it would be really nice if we could come up with a good racial slur to u...

I heard recently that a Nobel Prize had been given for advances in light microscopy, and wondered why we would be fooling around with light ...

This actually strikes me as a pretty sane measure :  state health officials will be trying to monitor all incoming travelers from the Ebola-...

And a very good production, too (outside of Mrs. Peachum).

The Sergeant at Arms is an ancient office that, for quite some time, has been chiefly ceremonial. Not today. According to reports, most o...

So asks Dr. Gordon Finley , via Dr. Helen , via Dr. Glen Reynolds . Since such a well-educated consort wants to know, allow me to answer. ...

A paralyzed man is able to walk again, thanks to cells taken from an adult's nose. It may even be possible for this to be replicated,...

People have been arguing for a long time about what tolerance means. I admire this 19th-century attempt to sort out religious vs. civil tol...

A good article in The Federalist about John Adams, including his thoughts on arbitrary government, why laws can never be amoral, and this a...

This weekend I was camped at Stone Mountain for the Highland Games. It's been a long time I've been going. After dark I walked by ...

A man after Ymar's very heart .

In a really satisfying courtroom/scandal thriller, after our heroes struggle seemingly in vain against the shadowy forces of conspiracy, Wil...

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...