I went to the event. Nobody was checking voter registration cards or IDs. There was no obvious security or LEOs with pepper spray either. Th...

Not long ago... ok, it was nearly twenty years ago... I was in Iraq working with the tribes as we were trying to bring peace to a long-troub...

I can't recommend highly enough a biography of John von Neumann, " The Man from the Future ," by Ananyo Bhattacharya. The auth...

  It was a good day. 

The 2nd was always about being able to resist. 

This song turns up in a Ray Wylie Hubbard tune. 

Here is a woman actively working against the goods that the virtue of chivalry embraces.  Don't do this, not that any of you are dumb e...

Sly sent this article from the American Thinker on a topic well familiar to readers of the Hall.  Parts of it are better than other parts ...

Dad29 sends an article built around the concept that Liberalism failed by succeeding .  If Patrick Deneen’s 2018 Why Liberalism Failed didn...

I'm not sure exactly how it went when the Marines retrieved the U.S. flag from WHO headquarters, but I'm thinking of this scene fro...

We've had an interesting discussion for the last few days on the nature of rights. This is not the first: the Hall also had a significan...

From "The Salt-Box House," a proofing project at Gutenberg, a 1929 sketch of pre-Revolutionary War New England by Jane de Forest S...

I've been very disappointed with the Trump administration on the 2nd Amendment, although here as in so many other cases I am much more p...

Ammon Bundy , who led an armed standoff of a Federal wildlife refuge against Federal agents in 2016, has like his father always been pretty...

This has been a busy few days. The official total from the weather report in Sylva, which is thirty miles away and about 2000 feet lower, wa...

Even Conan wanted in when it hit -4 with wind chill. I have a fire in the wood burning furnace and another in this beautiful fireplace that ...

Conan is so delighted by the snow. The cat is noticeably less delighted. 

I really expected to catch some flack for What Are the Obstructionists Fighting For? and am a bit surprised that I haven't -- although ...

So it’s emblematic of my life that my first email today was about establishing a new ammunition company in Central Asia. I don’t think I wil...

A number of the most serious questions of all are coming up all at once. I'm trying to get you to think seriously about them, and I'...