One of the things that has been debated since ancient times is whether the virtues are a collection of things, or a whole. Socrates, who ar...

About sums it up for me. Sure, I know, Republicans had a narrow majority, and they could only pass something through the Senate by re...

This piece comes from a list of ten similar pieces compiled by Rolling Stone . They describe them as Mike Ness' "country-punk c...

John Clements of ARMA writes.

David French is quite right .

The Republican-led health care act was hideous, and we're better off without it. Someday we'll get the Federal government out of he...

So argues this writer , who is quite pleased about it: I’m excited the North American church is dying. Christians not having the influence w...

The Atlantic has a piece on him , which a friend of mine who is quoted in it describes as fair and accurate. The guy's name is Michael ...

U.S.-backed Syrian Arab forces landed on American military helicopters with Apache gunships flying overhead. The indigenous forces were a...

David Bernstein, in "Sorry, but the Irish were always 'white' (and so were Italians, Jews and so on)" over at the Volokh C...

A teenage boy was told by school leaders that he had to “tolerate” undressing in front of a female student and to make it as “natural” as po...

Earlier this month we looked at the insightful book Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide by Michael J. Knowles with its ama...

So, today there was another terrorist attack in London, involving ramming people with autos as has become usual. The attacker was exactly w...

So, just this week, we had a hearing in Congress in which the FBI director admitted that someone -- probably on Team Obama -- had committed ...

Did you ever wonder why artists painted such obsessively realistic still-lifes, including shiny objects?  Apparently because it's simply...

In a discussion below, there was a thread about how originalism is inferior to textualism. The second, as described, sounded to me like a s...

In which Vox hits upon the truth, but thinks it applies to the other side . I mean, by all means read it -- some of their allegations aga...

Several leading philosophers, including Kwame Anthony Appiah, have a piece calling for a reconsideration of how important these things are....

The Washington Post decided to publish an article by the least credible person in America on the importance of White House officials speak...

I think they may be appropriating us, actually, but whatever. Maybe that's all to the good. If you don't know the artist, she w...