Both the WSJ and the WaPo are reporting that there might be armed Guardsmen deployed to DC. I'll wager heavily that, if this proves tru...

Let me give any  youngsters  hanging around here a bit of advice.  The Performative Male curates his aesthetic in a way that he thinks might...

The NYT published a barn burner yesterday: "Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court: Why the Left can't Win w...

This is definitely not how America, the land of the free, should operate.  Between 2023 and 2025, we conducted 1,452 confidential interview...

After yesterday’s labors I feel that we are ready for the cold weather to come. 

Apparently, the UK censors didn't enjoy this Coinbase ad as much as I did. Technically, it was only rejected for broadcast TV, which is...

This final chapter of Book IV is so short I'll go ahead and do it today, even though we've already had a post about an interesting ...

Spoiler: it doesn't include getting back the Eastern provinces. This HotAir article embeds a useful videographic of European boundaries...

We have a vision of what Greek wine-drinking parties were like among the lively philosophers and playwrights of the era in Plato's Sympo...

There's a paywall, but here's the relevant bit:  Police officers told a shopkeeper to take down a sign calling shoplifters “scumbags...

My work takes me to DC several times a year -- indeed, I'll be back there next month. I imagine it will be a much more peaceful place t...

Continuing with the social virtues: The mean opposed to boastfulness is found in almost the same sphere; and this also is without a name. It...

I know it's the NYT, but this opinion piece reads like raving lunacy. For Israelis, the reality is this: Israel, a flawed but real and ...

The DOJ has begun petitioning federal judges to release Epstein grand jury records, so far to no avail. Judge Engelmayer in the S.D.N.Y. is ...

The next several sections are on how to be socially virtuous. It is key to Aristotle's view of the human good that we have positive inte...

Apparently Nova Scotia, which is about the size of New Hampshire, has simply ordered its population not to go into the woods to hike or camp...

The discussion on the Melodrama post below has grown to 52 comments as of this morning, and since some of them are threaded it can be hard t...

The next chapter is short and straightforward, and requires little commentary. It's about how to deal with anger in society. The basic s...

This is a titanic section that I will treat in one go, because it belongs together.  To my mind, this is the most misunderstood and importan...

I tried talking to ChatGPT 5 today about the Middle East, and I noticed that it immediately placed Israel/Gaza at the top of its list. It di...