You all know the line about how one does not simply walk into Mordor. Well, today it’s flying out that’s not working.  I did manage to get a...

A short trip this time, but I’ll be back in DC until Friday evening. Light posting from the road. 

Not to dump on this single Gen Z-er, whose video went viral , because it seems that every generation finds the burdens of independent adult ...

With the understanding that the journalist involved here has a vested interest in shocking stories, and the Congressman he's interviewin...

Richard Fernandez (who long blogged under the handle "Wretchard") has been one of the military/political analysts I respect most f...

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...