We have reached the "Footloose" section of the document, in which the problem of horny teenagers is raised. In a way it is strang...

An hour of good Alberta country songs and stories.

We have moved on from education to practice, and specifically the practice of war . This is to be done through competitions held at regular ...

Google and Apple take Parler off their app stores. Amazon apparently breaks its own terms of service to take Parler offline ASAP. Airbnb is ...

A review of Anne Applebaum's new book . The author of the review is largely unsympathetic to her, on the grounds that her center-right/...

If only there weren't so many women willing to sell nudes of themselves online, those who do could make more money. The NYT reports. Ap...

 

If you thought we were surely done with restatements of the importance of women sharing equally in military service, we're not: it come...

Over on Ricochet, SkipSul takes exception to conservative's objections to AWS refusing to host Parler by comparing AWS to Masterpiece Ca...

I'm switching to a different source for the later parts of this book, as the online version of the  one I was using is cut off for some...

Andrew Bacevich is generally presented as a conservative, but he is more a pessimist than anything else. I can't remember having read hi...

Against the pursuit of happiness , in the Guardian . Look, the problem is not that you want to be happy. The problem is that you have been l...

From the education of the young we turn to the need to regulate the rules of games, so that all children shall learn to play the same games...

...or not. One thing drew my eye from the video in this tweet :  The gentleman isn't, really, but for a second reason in my peabrain.   ...

Wretchard suggests that it might be worth downloading some of the Project Gutenberg archives, in case you find yourself deciding to take you...

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...