A great deal of this strikes me as wholesome . What does fatherhood mean to you? There's such a blissful sense of otherness that I can...

John Derbyshire spells it out for us. In those days the monarch was still a force in ruling Britain. He could, in theory at least, dissolve...

So if any of you were thinking of going to see the new Mad Max , I went. It's a pretty amazing two hours. Heavy Metal acts push a li...

To the death! Wait, not to the death. Sorry.

Language warning , but they're right.

Those of you who know the famous RANGER! video ("You'll fight tigers!") will remember that it included among famous Rangers Je...

Food, cut into 2.5cm cubes . Surprisingly beautiful for a piece of modern art, but I suppose nature gets most of the credit here. The art ...

This just proves that today’s outrage culture and offensensitivity (to use a wonderful term coined by Berke Breathed in Bloom County nearly...

Story here .

.... watch Ol' 97 roll . An Amtrak train that derailed near Philadelphia was apparently traveling at more than 100 miles per hour at the...

More from Jesperson's "Language":  just as we call birds by their sounds, cultures develop names for foreign visitors that ref...

"Junk," with a negative outlook :  that's how Moody's characterizes Chicago's bond rating.  In other words, "Tha...

Following a rendition of "Rye Whiskey," Woody Guthrie is asked to give some off-color toasts he might have heard. It's an int...

This sounds like a neat little book -- it's 200 pages, but for a summary of Aristotle that is pretty short. ....accessible not only to ...

Soon after the agency’s contractors began their program of “enhanced interrogation’’ at the secret black site in Thailand – placing him in a...

With a little molecular tinkering, for the first time scientists have created chicken embryos with broad, Velociraptor-like muzzles in the ...

VDH points out a clever trick . President Obama scapegoated Nakoula at the United Nations — a majority of whose members ban free speech as a...

Republicans seem to be preparing to save the President's bacon on two trade bills, neither of which should be even remotely considered ...

A reflection . For me personally, there’s also a kind of ponderous clarity and simplicity about Aquinas’s writing that gets more and more at...