Jackson Crawford explains the news that you may have seen this week about an alleged Viking climate prophecy .

I have to wonder sometimes what most people think "nutrients" are. This peculiar Guardian article tries to discuss the thorny qu...

Scientists could use some advice from a philosopher this time. Jonas  (see first comment) has written great work on what it means for somet...

Life in Iran must be unimaginably hard right now. I give the Iranian government and people credit for reversing course on their denial of ...

As Legal Insurrection says, "while you were focused on Soleimani, Israel became an energy superpower." And Turkey is torqued.

Of the great Georgia prison escape of 1980.

Nancy Pelosi channels Mao . ‘Absolutely total cooperation,’ Pelosi told reporters Friday when asked about the support she’s received from D...

Most interesting , if true.

Russian journals retract hundreds of scientific papers. Sure, it's easy to mock them and talk about all the ways in which they got so ...

Are you wondering why we should care about the New York Times endorsement for president?  Jim Geraghty explains the appeal: Elizabeth War...

A Guardian article moans that San Francisco residents don't have gentrification to kick around any more.  Instead they have something mo...

What I find interesting about this claim is that, if it’s right, survival plays no apparent role in the change. In this way it is more like...

Speaking of the Tim Cook of terror--the best shorthand I've heard in a long time for second-rate pseudolegacies-- here is Kurt Schlicht...

John Podhoretz ponders whether killing Soleimani is a fundamental change, or only the usual opportunity for a leadership rotation in terror...

A criticism of criticism . The fellow is from Brookings, which is institutionally suspect on Middle Eastern issues because it receives vast...

Jim Geraghty chronicles the state of the MSM reportage on who exactly it was that bombed the Saudi oil facilities several months ago.  The ...

In LA, better school air filters raised test scores — a lot.

Or at least, on my marriage.  Yesterday was a special day for me.  January 7th wasn't a birthday, or anniversary, or indeed any particu...

I am as usual very confused about international military strategy; the American people can count themselves lucky that I'm not their chi...