The British Royal Navy deployed gunboats against a French blockade, which caused the French navy to respond in kind.  The heraldry on the fi...

I have had the strong sense that 'conservatism' has largely failed as an intellectual and political movement; it has not in fact con...

The audit in Arizona continues , although Democrats' legal efforts have forced them to stop checking signatures , and some of the extern...

It is a strange fact that leaving home for a while makes you see it anew when you return. Of course, in my case I went at the change of seas...

It's a pleasure to read a technical article trying to sort through the origin of the SARS virus that causes COVID without running into ...

PowerLine : The point is so elementary that it should not be necessary to state: a model is not evidence. It is a theory expressed in arith...

Thanks to a feud with a necromancer, a city of dwarves has a mapping challenge: a math exercise in prose. 

An essay , with video of quite a performance, from Arts & Letters Daily . DakhaBrakha is the perfect band to make the view ring true tha...

Pretty little town.  I’m going to try a short 544 mile ride tomorrow to get ahead of some weather. Wish me luck. 

I haven’t been to Alabama since I was a boy, but I’ll be there in another thirty miles. Riding down to Mobile for a strongman competition, a...

Different perspectives. 

Much of the second half of the document is of historical interest, especially for those wanting to see how the conditions in Weimar Germany ...

Weber goes on to argue that party politics tends to order itself around one bourgeois party and a second party built around more novel idea...

The pattern center in my brain is ascendant again, firing up like a fireworks display.  Since all I want to do is crochet lace, maybe I ough...

The current leadership of labor unions has strange ideas about their members’ interests.  So now we have the Pipefitters Union against ...

A rash acquiescience in the request of a departing commissioner to take on his committee assignments left me on the governing board of the c...

I'm not going to jump into this latest cultural propaganda push to get you to abandon meat, as all of you are too sensible for such foo...

Flirting with treason , again, which I suppose is better than his history of wholly embracing it . Perhaps he's learned... nothing, obvi...

I'm listening to an audio version of " The Gene " by Siddhartha Mukherjee, which turns out to be more of a history of science ...

The history of political parties in Early Modern Europe looks a lot like Bolshevism, Weber notes, in two different respects that might surp...