Today is the final day of the Christmas feast, at least the twelve-day feast of historic fame. It marks the revelation of the Christ to the ...

Readers of the Hall are old enough to remember many occasions when a President has been put under for a medical procedure, and the Vice Pres...

A little different, but well within specs. 

Big ice storm coming through tonight, so I rode over to the clubhouse station to make sure things are in order. 

An opinion piece in today's Washington Post is titled , "I killed a deer in my bathroom."  Now that sounds unsual! Deer are no...

I started reading The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius last night. Two years ago during January we read through the Enchiridion by Epictetus...

The subject that happened to have our Pulitzer-winning critic so incensed as to rethink free speech was, it happens, the war in Israel . Or,...

An article by another quasi-elite -- a "Pulitzer winning book critic" -- tries to craft a new view for the Left of freedom of spe...

One Two more to add to Grim's new music post below.

Country radio is terrible, but there's good stuff being made if you pay attention. Here are a couple of young artists who have a style o...

 This follows the last post, the one immediately below. Readers know that I tend to be suspicious of elitism of most sorts, while neverthele...

One of the problems with having an elite is raised by Plato in the Republic : How do you make sure that only those who belong in an elite ar...

This is not directly a part of my current meditations on hope, but I do want to use one idea in this poem in them, and it's a fun poem. ...

 

Update: I've fleshed out my ideas below the fold. Sources “Hope” is the thing with feathers  by Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with...

 

AVI, explaining himself when he doesn't really need to do so because he has a perfect right to do what he wants: "...and Grim goes ...

In science you often learn more from failures. I guess we will see if anyone learns anything here . 

The Sunday after Christmas, in years when Christmas itself is not a Sunday, is the Feast of the Holy Family . 

More from a series of "best of 2024" Powerline features: this excerpt from a piece by Michael Barone pitching, in part, his then...