We seem to be entering what you might call a preference cascade.  Many unspeakable truths suddenly are being spoken all over the place. In...

I'm agnostic about how dangerous the vaccines are; the signal is awfully noisy.  Boy, oh, boy, though, I'm having a hard time seeing...

 

It's discouraging when the Supreme Court of the United States has members who are demonstrably incapable of thinking through the legal s...

" Let's not go there. It's a silly place ."

 The High Feast of Christmas is over. Now back to our regular programming.

Since they had the misfortune to schedule it opposite a real holiday, I missed yesterday’s extravaganza .  Was it prudent for the President ...

The last day and night of Christmas is upon us. The evening is traditionally spent removing Christmas decorations, After this, the long and...

This little guy's name came up in a letter-scramble word game at the NYT that I'm addicted to working every morning. I'd never ...

Vouchers and school choice just got a leg up in Arizona , where parents will receive $7K/year to send their kids to a private school if the ...

I can't seem to put away my paint set.

I am greatly bothered by an article that AVI linked to at his place with some additional discussion. I left a comment there outlining my ob...

I wasn't going to do any more COVID posts, on the assumption that it's endemic now and therefore something we just have to learn to ...

Every now and then I run into a COVID article written by a sane person , and I like to publicize it. It's so refreshing to read the tho...

From Andrew McCarthy : Having finally discovered federalism, perhaps President Biden could take the next step and discover liberty. If he di...

I made venison pies with compound herbal butter on New Year’s Eve, and homemade meat pizzas yesterday. They’re a traditional part of the hol...

This is a pretty neat website , although it has the usual limits of history. Fried chicken is almost certainly older than the oldest source ...

The Scottish government has forbidden the celebration of Hogmanay this year, which attentive readers will recall is the reason that Hogmanay...

For 'good' purposes only , of course.  The contemporary political theory literature—which largely conceptualizes legitimacy in terms...