A brief essay in three parts. I. Chaos and the Iraq War From time to time, one sees this old (and anonymous, and thus dubious) "quote...

  An extraordinary image from the AFP of the contest in Israel. I listened to some Israelis discussing this, including a general officer an...

The UK needs every man to help save the nation’s pubs by drinking 124 pints. 

 

Dr. Bastiat posted a summary of some of Dalrymple's major themes over at Ricochet , and I think there are a number of important insights...

BB : “Dick Cheney Invites Trump On Reconciliatory Hunting Trip."

Rasmussen Reports has taken an interest in the audit in Arizona, perhaps because its own polling supports the conclusion that the auditors a...

"The modern Labour Party seethes with sociologists named Hugo who wouldn’t know a wrench if it landed on their moccasins."

I've been considering leaving the Democratic Party for a long time, but the Republican Party doesn't seem like either a natural home...

Never-Trumper Liz Cheney was just booted from the No. 3 position in the U.S. House. I'm already hearing carping about how this is ...

...but not yet . 

John Derbyshire still publishes a monthly memo that I very occasionally read. The most recent one includes quite a bit about poets, first a...

 A letter signed by more than a hundred and twenty once-top officers points out that Marxism is winning in America.  Our Nation is in deep ...

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.