The article begins with a sort-of amusing story. Isn’t it irritating when your ancestral manuscript collection gets in the way of your ping-...

Over at Hot Air, they missed the important part and only got to the second-most important part in the exit question.  Exit question: Would ...

I met some good bikers today, down all the way from Michigan to ride the local mountains. We had a great conversation about the local roads....

In philosophy, 'analytic' as a term of art means that the truth of a proposition can be determined from itself. The etymology of the...

An interesting piece by Benedict Beckeld in Quillette .  Once they have left their mythical past behind, and scored successes against neighb...

 

The top story at the New York Times today is a poll showing that Democrats don't want Biden to be President again. Sixty-four percent o...

A subset, it turns out, of the economic war. City Journal analyzes the trend .

Weirdly, the suspect is both mentally incompetent and also capable of making sophisticated home-made guns. That seems an unlikely combinatio...

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 ...