This essay begins and ends well; the middle is all about Covid, and should be skipped lest it rouse the passions we have so often discussed...

In the comments to a post below AVI suggests "...the intellectual task of reading for six months people who disagree with you.... Grim,...

So last year we heard a lot about the " surge " in violence against Asian Americans. Turns out that, statistically, Asians in Amer...

I love these Sunday-school-lesson folk gospel songs. God called Moses on the mountain top And he placed the law in Moses' heart. A...

In fairness, Feynman really was a genius, but the fun of this story is how he lucked into looking like one on a particular occasion at Oak R...

Per the CDC, COVID hospitalizations are rising among those aged 75 and up, but not noticeably otherwise. On these charts, it's usually...

"Mr. Bernard Shaw proposes to distribute wealth," Chesterton summarized. "We propose to distribute power." A good News...

This is as unfair as Libs of Tik-Tok's habit of publicizing videos that people take of themselves and post online with the expectation t...

From Ed Morissey at HotAir: Roberts could [hijack the Obamacare ruling] in 2012 because the court was split 4-4 with himself in the middle....

" You can equalize salaries when the people getting paid aren't doing anything that matters. " This scales up brilliantly to a...

Once upon a time we took your word . We wagered our lives on it. Some killed for it, and still carry the weight of that; some bear scars and...

This is just a creative writing class , not a literature class; I gather the professor's point is that no one going forward will want to...

There's been a lot of discussion about this Federal law preventing, inter alia , protests outside the homes of judges.  Whoever, with t...

You may not know that the problem with the Democratic Party is that it's too policy-based and rational. Poor things, they can't com...

"The mere advocacy of political or social positions, political activism, use of strong rhetoric, or generalized philosophic embrace of ...

Yesterday I went up on the Art Loeb Trail near the Shining Rock Wilderness, in the Pisgah Forest, just north of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The ...

I may have mentioned my opinion that my current congressman is an idiot. A lot of people would describe him in worse terms: embarrassment , ...

There's not much people won't do in the face of starvation.

I can add nothing to expose any more clearly the lunacy embedded in every sentence of this description of a political strategy.

Freddie DeBoer inadvertently makes the case that the last few decades of decline in U.S. colleges has been a clever Republican gambit to el...