There is some good songwriting on display here. Bluegrass covers of Simpson's existing music.

From Julie Kelly . Among the most disgusting claims about the January 6 riot is the notion that half a dozen officers were killed. One of...

The Cambridge Elements series on women in the history of philosophy is available for free download through the end of next week. They did a...

OpenAI, the same company that put out Chat GPT, also has an illustrator. I asked it to give me illustrations of the Elric the Barbarian sto...

This is an article with multiple significant insights about the problems of the moment. The conclusion is shocking to those of us from anoth...

So the third thing I asked Chat GPT to do -- as discussed in the immediately prior post -- was to write a short story in the manner of Rober...

I had read a bit about this here and there, but was not planning on messing with these Large Language Model "AIs" myself. However,...

The Marine Corps' snipers are some of the best-trained in the world. The psychological operations team described is a capacity I'm l...

I’m not sure how newsworthy this is, because my source is my wife sending me a Facebook link. However, I hadn’t heard of it before now.  Th...

 

Salina Zito writes about the decline in volunteering in America and interviews some volunteer firefighters in PA .

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...