Also known as Three Kings' Day , the feast celebrates the revelation to the Magi that God was before them incarnate. The feast is often...

Maggie's Farm puts up good verse: You know Orion always comes up sideways. Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains, And risin...

Image from an old friend. UPDATE: This one is from the Battery in Charleston, South Carolina.

I've read somewhere that a sort of biochemical traffic along the neurons or axons flows backwards during sleep (maybe something like thi...

Devin Foley ruminates on Trump's spat with Steve Bannon: I don’t know what it is, but there is something about the guys who are bill...

Maggie's Farm pointed to a new website, Idlepost, where I found this rumination on Henry II, Thomas à Becket, Henry VIII, and Sir Thoma...

You'd think the scion of a political family of such influence would know better than to produce a headline like this .

John Ringo's perspective on the Iranian riots.

When I was a child, my grandfather ran a service station in rural Tennessee. He'd retired after a long career: welder, working on the a...

Often we have spoken about the dangers of ossification to bureaucracy, following Joseph Schumpeter . The usual way this gets solved is thro...

If you didn't catch the Rose Bowl tonight, you missed perhaps the finest game of football ever played.

I've finished a batch of black-eyed peas and greens for tomorrow, as well as a spinach-orange-olive-pecan salad and a radish-jicama-ques...

At Gutenberg this week, I'm formatting a biography of Alfred the Great by Charles Plummer (1902).  In the war-torn and squalid late 9th...

Gutierrez says evaluations of math skills can perpetuate discrimination against minorities, especially if they do worse than their white co...

Remember Paul Krugman after Trump's election? Something similar is shaking out of Brexit, which failed to result in the Brexodus of ...

Is this a peaceful path out of Venezuela's failed experiment?  Or will Maduro start massacres to prevent the humiliation? Never under...

He is also known of St. Thomas of Kent, where he died, as memorialized in Ivanhoe . “By my troth,” said the knight, “thou hast sung well ...

On December 18th, the WaPo published an article challenging the historical evidence for the existence of Jesus by Raphael Lataster, a histor...

In 1836, Rowland Hill was tasked by a Member of Parliament to propose a reform of England's cumbersome and expensive postal system.  He...

Newsweek establishes a winning formula: Trump’s rhetoric differs from that of Nazi Germany’s, most notably because he has never advocated...