Raven dropped an excellent documentary about the practice of logging, up on the border, as it was done during the 1930s.  The film was origi...

The seventh book of the Laws begins with a piece that must be nearly the first in the genre of philosophers giving advice on how to raise b...

It's Friday, after all.

Edward Luttwak, who describes himself as "historian and rancher," rather famously the former, offers an historical parallel to th...

State propaganda outlet China Daily assures you that the rapid decline in Uighur birthrates is not at all due to forced sterilization, inter...

It occurred to me, in a discussion of nostalgia and freedom at AVI's place, that I couldn't think of any reason why it should have b...

This will be the last part of Laws VI , at which point we are halfway through the larger work. Those of you who are getting tired of this ca...

Donald Trump, a buffoon who stumbled into the Presidency and nevertheless did much more good there than I might have expected, was unwise to...

The entire democracy movement of Hong Kong was just arrested; I imagine they have a different 'vision of freedom' than this author, ...

Military more than political, really.  I had read that the DC guard was going to be deployed today. If I were handling the deployment, I wou...

Vice President Mike Pence, ex officio President of the Senate, has decided not to use any powers to choose alternative slates of electors....

Of the modification of the laws over time , the Athenian admits its necessity but is clearly greatly bothered by it. In fact, he can barely ...

Flyboys , 2006, after a pilot complains about a German pilot who killed a bailed-out pilot unlawfully: Captain Thenault: "Reports can b...

SpaceX is trying to move toward more reusable rockets. The next step is to snag the returning rocket with a launch arm, which would save h...

These next two days are potentially momentous, politically; but few of us are in a position to have even an indirect effect on the outcome. ...

A good summary of a disgraceful episode.

It's been a tough year, but this guy's was at least as bad as yours. I hope so, anyway.

This is quite a development . This means that in my lifetime we will have gone from a nation that could be scandalized by a President giving...

D29 links an essay with an interesting conception of what the terms "authority" and "legitimacy" mean. It's a little...