The roots of every good thing... Some regard religious freedom as a product of the Enlightenment. However, the roots of a later understandin...

The more you know, the more strongly you believe your side. In Gallup’s view, “These opposing trends by party suggest that higher levels of ...

You might be asking yourself, 'How about a Grim post fully in favor of capitalism for a change?' I can do that. The first scholarly...

As frequently annoys several of you, I think that economics should always and in every respect be subordinate to moral philosophy. I think ...

Some folks wrote to ask about this . Hillary's spymaster was a former director of the Clandestine Service for the CIA in Europe. He now ...

Imagine an eleven-year-old girl, home alone by night. A vehicle pulls into the driveway outside, and a man gets out. He comes to the door...

Twenty-six areas of global progress .

I think this one is very helpful even for those of us who aren't planning to date, but merely have to talk to these people once in a w...

Once upon a time... So that reminds me of this tremendously unfair and inappropriate video. With apologies to DL Sly at least, as I...

In other words, the swing votes here, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, may have voted for a liberal social policy because of a conse...

We recently had an invigorating discussion about facts , so I thought I'd actually look the word up. I know, linguists tell us that dict...

...to any Constitutional attorney : I can’t pay you (see above), but I have a tax return that will make your eyes bleed. Get me in front of ...

David Foster has up an interesting post about fiction and non-fiction. In recent years I've been reading more history than was my earl...

How malaria makes its hosts more inviting to mosquitoes when it's time to jump ship: Plasmodium's ancestors lost the ability to ph...

"Let's hop into a time machine and go back to the England of yore!" A small selection of readings in the original accent fro...

Obamacare is proving to be a drag on small business growth . Close to two thirds predict compliance costs of the ACA will "increase co...

From American Public Broadcasting : Nearly nine years after Brett first saw combat here, this Detroit native returned to Iraq to defend the ...

Naipaul once wrote a book called A Turn in the South , which treated the racial problems of thirty years ago with a compassionate eye for al...

As the military drives on with President Obama's orders to integrate women into every military job, the Washington Times reports that e...

I'm in favor of it, obviously.  The Washington Post reports in alarm over the high cost of legal services, even approving in its own ba...