So today I rode out to the Bobarosa Saloon . In fact everyone was perfectly nice. Armed society, polite society. The exterior of the main ba...

One of the regular features of the article we are discussing is that it imagines the American Founding in a kind of dialogue with Aristotle...

This piece of D29's is too long to respond to in one sitting, so we'll break it up a bit for ease of discussion.  The first things I...

Syria's "President," Bashar al-Assad , has waged war against his own people for quite some time. In addition to abusive secret...

This isn't normal fare for the Hall, but I often listen to music like this in the background when I'm working, and this particular v...

D29 asked me to read and review this article on natural rights as crucial to the American project. It's a long piece that critiques a n...

Maureen Dowd wrote in a classic genre this week, the genre of New York Times pieces looking down on Georgia (which is itself a subset of the...

It is often hard to know if you've saved someone's life. I don’t always know with these search and rescue missions if we actually di...

A HotAir article reports on Vanity Fair's discovery of a mildly encouraging trend at the New York Times, to resist woke staff's dem...

AVI links to a piece about Carl Schmitt , who might or might not be described as an important 20th century political philosopher. AVI says ...

With a hat tip to D29 , a new book analyzes the election of 2020 with some care. The author is careful, for example, not to focus only on t...

It would be a shame if a government shutdown were to cause us to have to do without such sage advice from expert professionals.

According to my calculations, St. Patrick’s Day of this year will mark the first full day of Grim’s Hall’s third decade. This happens to be ...

If I become Empress of all the Known Worlds, I'd like this to be my private office.

Many times in life, physical forces make inevitable a thing that human beings find unthinkable. Some things are unthinkable because they don...

Yesterday was the 80th birthday of one of the more memorable cartoon songs .

I have observed several discussions about this subject led by some of you. I want to think about it in terms of the danger to military recru...

 Albert King with a young Stevie Ray Vaughn back in 1983

Alec Baldwin blew it big time when he carelessly shot his camerawoman on set, and shouldn't get kid-glove treatment just because he'...

We found a Palestinian cookbook with a recipe for mashed turnips with greens, onions, and feta cheese. We added the bacon on general princi...