PowerLine discusses in some detail today a theme that Assistant Village Idiot has often raised:  Socialist and socialist-leaning Americans ...

Piercello asked me to clarify the boundary between strict logic and the kind of practical logics we find in ethics (like the use of logic in...

Nothing says "healthy culture" like an hysterical inability to tolerate disagreement. Given the accumulated costs of decades of...

From Maggie's Farm, advice from Andrew Gleeson on avoiding temporal or cultural myopia in a modern university: What follows is advice...

The Commandant orders the elimination of Confederate "paraphernalia" from all USMC facilities. What does that mean? I'm not...

A nice little collection of video lectures from Medievalists . UPDATE: Skip the one on defining metaphysics, which is not good.

Some good perspectives on the pandemic from NeoNeo , in an open-comments session. In the don't-panic line: I’ve been watching this to...

Late last year, there was an unusual burial at sea.

Where now shall I find a friend ?

Popular music is so awful today, it's easy to think that no lovely music is being produced. As Eric Blair used to say, though, it's...

Apropos of nothing, Sanders brought up an essay Vought had written as an alumnus of Wheaton College. The Christian school had fired a profes...

Now this is a pretty cool map.

Michelle Goldberg thinks that he would not. [Sanders'] unlikely ascendance would be a blow against the corrosive cynicism in which auth...

BB: Russians declare election too chaotic for them to successfully intervene . TO: (Slideshow) Guide to the 2020 Democratic Candidates ....

Jim Geraghty cautions against complacency, but still believes the "socialist" flag is voting-booth poison in November: Democra...

Our old friend Piercello, whom some of you may remember for his three-factor theory of human nature and his theory of aesthetics, dropped by...

Headline: “ We Can't Have a Feminist Future Without Abolishing the Family .” That does clarify things. Now we just have to sort out wh...

Oddly enough, since I just mentioned the place, they are pushing out a test commercial to see if people think it might draw business. They ...

It's just the Labour Party, which is at its smallest size in a generation so why not purge some of the few 'remain'ing members?

The Chinese authorities continue to treat the virus as a serious problem : ...when we got to Starbucks, the employees wouldn’t let us in. In...