This map of Medieval trade routes is very detailed and interesting. It also may be of interest to compare with the route of the Ten Thousan...

James posted some insightful remarks at his blog, to which I would like to draw your attention and some of which I would like to discuss fu...

Mr. Hines dropped this address in the comments below, but it's aimed directly at American citizens so I wanted to put it on the front pa...

At first I thought he was talking about the origins of the Republican Party, which sort of was founded by refugees from the Whig and the Dem...

If the state-sponsored press wants to excel at propaganda , I'd think they'd avoid phrases like this when trying to generate panic o...

Reason has mostly been unhappy with the new administration, but they like this EO really well.

It's a little like the Kash Patel inverted-universe story, but oddly more satisfying: a maverick anti-fraud junior bureaucrat temporari...

The next day they march down off the mountain from which they saw the sea, and ten parasangs later reach the river that is the border betwee...

I expect you saw coverage of VP Vance's speech in Germany, and maybe read the transcript. Foreign Policy , which is not a fan of Vance o...

In the prior post , I noted that a large potential set of suspect payments had been discovered, and that a reconciliation of the numbers was...

AVI is revisiting the famous essay , which we have discussed before in this space as well: Tex had a post about it in 2010 , and I had one...

Out of the snowy mountains , the Greek army finds pleasant villages for a while; but then they come into a hard country where their provisio...

The army continues quickly after its success of the last chapter, but finds it is pushing through very deep snow in the Armenian mountains. ...

I notice that there is a significant usage of ambiguous terms going on in this NYT story about the resignation of the Social Security head i...

I don't quite buy this argument , but there is something to be said for doing a class-based analysis of the present moment. I think he h...

Sourced from Wikipedia . Sourced from the Social Security Administration, according to Elon Musk. Some reconciliation of these numbers needs...

So I don't know how I never heard of this movie before last week, because it seems like the kind of thing that somebody should have sug...

The Greeks find the broad river between the land of the Kurds and Armenia to be too deep to cross while it is contested. They stay for more ...

What fun! I enjoyed historical European martial arts among several other kinds, and was our university co-president for ARMA for some years...

Al Sharpton has a hypothetical for you. UPDATE: More imagination .  The most generous interpretation of her remarks is that she thinks the N...