Jared Whitley argues  the proposition. Just one of his examples: “Children who are fit to proceed to a higher class may be artificially kept...

 Sad: Day Of Remembrance For St. April O’Fool Reduced To A Day Of Pranks Commercializing Christian holidays is, unfortunately, all too commo...

So this song features violence against women. It's Jerry Jeff Walker, though, so we can reason that he probably means it as a joke -- mu...

 You've either got it , or you don't . From an often excellent comic called "Existential Comics." I think the author may ...

After reading the Stasi-cancel tweet Grim referred us to, I scrolled down and read the next few entries, including this lame-brained cartoon...

 

Again, I'll put this past the jump.  Just to remind you, this is a very extended discussion in which Parmenides proposes to talk through...

I hate Twitter, but sometimes it's the place where important things get said. This thread on how cancel culture resembles less Mao's...

 From Hugo Gurdon , Washington Examiner editor-in-chief: In 1985, singer Bob Geldof was interviewed backstage at London’s Wembley Stadium ab...

I was going to leave this article alone, even though it addresses something I've been wondering about, until the last paragraph. The su...

The Chauvin trial is at last underway, with excellent daily reporting from PowerLine . The defendant is fortunate enough to have drawn a ju...

Raven mentioned this series , and this is the conclusion of it.  He says at the end that the collapse of Marxism -- a little over-eager, sad...

While I was trying to remember where Aristotle says the thing about primes that Parmenides said, I came across this paper. It argues that t...

I've always liked Popper's answer, but hear them out . First, what is the answer? Popper was struck by Einstein’s prediction. “Now t...

Theroux gets that readers might perceive him as cranky, but he thinks the problem might be with the readers.  Paul Theroux  gets older . His...

A provocative and worthy piece at The American Mind , by Glenn Ellmers. Fewer are willing to take the next step and accept that most people...

I kept reading aloud Townhall excerpts from this extraordinary MIT paper to my husband, who kept insisting that it was a hoax. It does sou...

If any of you are Jews, Passover was I understand yesterday; I hope your holiday was satisfying. For Christians, of course today is Palm Sun...

At the Central Georgia’s Strongest Man competition today, resumed after COVID, a man named Shannon Willits finished his courses and then per...