One of the men David Allan Coe said you 'don't have to call me,' Charlie Pride, has died at 86.

It is fitting that this section falls on the same day as the Army-Navy Game, which is being played at West Point this year. This section tr...

Vox published an article yesterday describing the failure of the Free State Project , a program I remember people recruiting for back in the...

When the Athenian turns his critique on Athens , he hits at our part of American society very strongly. His criticism is that love of libert...

 Just a little something funny I came across on Twitter -

A neat winter tradition from the Scottish isles, “100% Scandinavian” in its roots. 

Once Plato has outlined what he takes to be the chief destroyer of nations, he then has his Athenian return to the question of what went wr...

YouTube is the first to bar discussion of a stolen election. 

There's a longstanding sense that philosophy is kind of up-in-the-clouds; Aristophanes drew on that image in ancient Greece, and it rema...

 They matter, argues Megan Fox . Not all victims of violent crimes are so lucky, and business owner Tieesha Essex took the opportunity to m...

Governor Cooper has just issued a revised 'Stay at Home' order that mandates you to be at home from 10 PM until 5 AM, unless you hav...

The great destroyer of states is a kind of ignorance , Plato says.  Ath. That the greatest ignorance is when a man hates that which he never...

The legal hurdles have been cleared away , though there remains the business of getting the DOD to actually submit an award nomination. He ...

This book begins with an inquiry common to political philosophy: how do governments arise in the first place? The most famous of these text...

This doctor posts on a number of topics, not just COVID, and applies more statistical rigor than most commenters.

J. Christian Adams shines the light on a Kraken that may account for a legitimate* Trump loss. Two things happened in 2020. First, COVID led...

This year it suddenly seems as if it doesn’t even matter; China, our old friend, now threatens human freedom. Our ancestors fought for good ...

There are at least two more issues worth commentary in this book. The second of those two is the regulation of drinking, about which the co...

"No prophet speaks to calm our grief/But all in silence mourn"--that line gets me every time. This tune being Common Meter, these...

I don't know if they build or fight as well as they make commercials, but this is really something.