From a PowerLine comment: Programs are voluntary until people figure out they're rubbish, then they become mandatory.

Two country pieces, both of them odes to lost times as well as sorrowful worries that the world to come will not be one we will like.  Waylo...

I passed through Asheville today, expecting to find a total resurgence of the mask mania that characterized it last year. In fact very few p...

Instapundit reports both an encouraging outbreak of sanity among voters and an opportunity for Republicans to makes inroads into Democrat s...

Numbers don't lie .

West is aware of the need for someone writing today to defend the Founding against claims that it extended its allegedly universal claims on...

West has a bedrock notion that he wants to convey. That notion is that equality and liberty , as the Founders understood them, were the sam...

We were talking at some length here and at AVI's place about the way in which the virtual, and especially pornography, alters the sense ...

A fun exploration of Socrates and his method . Socrates: What is courage? You: Courage is being willing to take big risks without knowing ho...

The Olympics are considering dropping weightlifting .  Olympic weightlifting has never been an interest of mine, and in fact it strikes me a...

From the Bee

While I have doubts that this young man and I would agree on the definition of 'a Nazi,' in principle it's reasonable to want t...

I have read at this point the introduction and the conclusion of West's Founding , as well as the first three chapters. Reading the intr...

For my next longer work, I'll be reading The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Con...

 Because sometimes I have more time than good sense. There is growing chatter that President Joe Biden (D) will be out as President by Novem...

 

I mean really go for it , LOLGF.

Not the deservedly famous one , but the current one. He is engaged in a “ rewilding ” project on the estate. It’s worth reading about.