Today is the winter solstice -- tonight , actually, at 10:27 PM EST. Advent continues until Sunday, but the old Yuletide would begin today. ...

A mass shooting in Prague happened at the philosophy department of a major university. An armed man opened fire in a university building in...

Do you people hear yourselves? "In some ways, Aidan’s act mirrored that of Anne Frank..." Come on . 

Colorado on the Nile ! I was an election monitor in Egypt in 2018 . The election was conducted in a verifiably secure and honest manner, as ...

Commenter juvat asked the other day if it was possible to redirect the Potomac to wash away DC. Turns out they’re already on it. When they ...

Aeon publishes a piece that, inter alia , points out that philosophers have often liked to use pseudonyms . [W]hat might the forging of a wo...

Some philosophers from the British zone are worried that loving families may need to be eliminated because they provide benefits to their ch...

After long travels, it's nice to settle down for a little while. A very little: I've got some VFD night classes starting up tomorrow...

Here’s an article on a largely overlooked theatre of WWII. It wasn’t inconsequential: some 600 American aircraft were lost, and 1,500 men. ...

This trip went so “well” that I bought myself another one next month, but in the meantime it’s home for the holidays. We are wheels-up out o...

On my last night up here, a friend took me to see a holiday lights display. It was unusual.  Tomorrow afternoon I fly home, and gladly so. 

The mighty Potomac river, just at the fall line above the District of Columbia. 

One in five mail in voters from 2020’s Presidential election admit fraud . 

Or, you know, a cartoon of Trump planning the insurrection. I can't tell the difference anymore.

It’s pretty clear to me that this Ott fellow didn’t do anything that merits 20 years to life. Maybe ‘things went a little bit far,’ as he sa...

There’s actually a nice little Christmas night market going on by the National Portrait Gallery. It’s like the German ones except without mu...

A community of farmers in Mexico takes on a cartel .  The cartel had body armor and assault rifles; the farmers, shotguns and machetes. The ...

Although in general my profession pleases me, I do have to make the occasional trip to the National Capital Region . Next week will be one s...

After watching it myself, I mostly agree with CD's review here, although see below. After I saw it, I watched this and another review on...