I guess the Killer was kind of a jerk too, though. Maybe it goes with playing piano like an ace.

Pluses: it's a new theory about time and reality from MIT! Minuses: it's not from an astronomer or a physicist, but from an MIT phi...

A big hit in the past, this year it was canceled because of newly-imposed ' safety ' registrations that made it difficult and expens...

Cambridge University Press has made free four of its six books on the subject. Unfortunately the one of probably greatest interest to most o...

Shinzo Abe, a longstanding firebrand of a Prime Minister in Japan, was assassinated yesterday while giving a campaign speech for a party me...

The new Gallup poll on Americans' confidence in our institutions is out. Longtime Hall readers know I've watched this poll for a ve...

Somebody blew up the Georgia Guidestones last night -- well, one of them. The Georgia State Police apparently destroyed the rest of them ...

...in China . More than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a historic U.S. emergency reserves release to lower domestic fuel prices ...

The Washington Post deserves praise for this story, adapted from a book by the authors, exploring how the opioid crisis was made possible by...

 Honestly, I can't believe I've never heard anyone suggest this before.  Not only that we need the Electoral College federally, but ...

 At least, I forgot it was one ...

This isn't a good review of John McWhorter's recent book Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America . Nope. For that...

Vice has pulled a video from Tik Tok that it believes illustrates a serious threat. I appreciate that they defined their terms. Christian n...

"Ladies Love Outlaws" is a classic Waylon album from 1972, and he is now classic Americana. Waylon thus provides a good ending pie...

 The music is fine, but the rocks are the real attraction here. My goodness, what beautiful stone.

We spent part of the winter with Epictetus, so you might be interested in hearing his thoughts on freedom.  Via the Daily Stoic , which adds...

 Via Tim Kennedy , former Green Beret. He advises: "Don't lose."

This year I have had women write to tell me that they don't feel like they can celebrate Independence Day. This strikes me as a strange ...

  Freedom means decision, choice and difference.

 I don't know who that guy is, but the meme is by request in the comments below.