At David Foster's place , Lexington Green argues that Trump's campaign positions have been no more vacuous than most, and less so th...

"Although breastfeeding is assumed to be natural and a biological function, we problematize the practice as gendered and heteronormati...

From an Ace commenter: I've been all anti politics at Thanksgiving because c'mon people can't we at least pretend for one day...

A Trump-supporting law professor wonders how nearly all his colleagues so thoroughly lost sight of the principle that ours is a government ...

Can a section of the Constitution itself be unconstitutional? The answer is yes . Used to be the idea was just to get the SCOTUS to ignore t...

Very good . The list of essential items astronauts would need to pack for an expedition to the Red Planet, has just got longer after a leadi...

Useful advice for everyone melting down about how their children will cope with Trump's proposed cabinet appointees.  News flash:  your...

And not a day too soon . Recently I performed a little experiment during a sabbatical in France: For a full year I read only European publi...

Dallas also has some choice biker stuff going on. I talked with the owner of this fine bike, which is a tribute to a not-so-classic 1991 mo...

So we took this trip to Dallas. The wife and I were walking along the Turtle Creek greenway, which is quite lovely for an urban park, when ...

They went too far . . . even for Oregon ? They went too far . . . for college students ?  Well, maybe not, that's just a few hundred...

The author of Slate Star Codex, which is a stellar example of blogging at its best, has a piece refuting the idea that Donald Trump is appe...

A deputy came under violent attack the other day, but was saved by an armed citizen who stepped in and shot his assailant. Of course, the f...

Newsweek hosts a mournful piece by Nina Burleigh, the kind of person who attended a celebratory dinner for Hillary before the votes were c...

The list of people who have suddenly asked me about buying a gun has expanded all week. If the readership includes any lurkers who want to ...

You missed it the first time, America. Try it again. This is the point. This is the thing you should be aiming for. They sorted out t...

Mollie Hemingway makes the argument over at the Federalist . It's a bit difficult to excerpt, so I'll just link her article.

A Vox interview with Haidt : We have to recognize that we’re in a crisis, and that the left-right divide is probably unbridgeable. And if i...

It's worth revisiting this article as we encounter people who are wrestling with the question of how anyone could have voted for Trump ....

Just back from Dallas. Only I'm not all the way back, as I got rerouted part way home to another bit of business. I did like Texas, tho...