The Pope has said that he thinks the war on/with Iran is unjust. Fr. Gerald Murray disagrees and offers an argument in favor of the war bei...

From the always-valuable U.S. Army W.T.F! Moments : As the comments wryly point out, the Army brass is interpreting this as the SECWAR givin...

Rabbi Shalom Landau : If you give out of guilt, don’t call it generosity. It’s emotional leakage. No wonder you feel used, resentful, and d...

Some fiction captures your imagination in childhood, never to be displaced. I have a vivid memory of a short, satirical science fiction stor...

Grim's Hall favorite Tulsi Gabbard gets a glowing review .

How did we get to this strange passage ? Even the Babylon Bee is making fun of the Pope now. My guess is that it started with the Pope meet...

CATO favors immigration, as libertarians normally do; they therefore intend this as a criticism, not an endorsement.  Asylum seekers enteri...

The Senate Committee on Homeland Security will be holding a hearing on the Second Amendment this morning . [UPDATE: April 15th] The head of...

We Orthodox have finally caught up to the Western liturgical season -- a blessed Pascha to you all! I would have liked to post Easter greeti...

Jared Gould reports a bit of a bump in Catholic recruitment, but notes that the Christians voting with their feet are not coming so much fr...

I first misread this graph to be suggesting that conservative children are meaner , on average. That's not what it says. Of course, pol...

What is a Boojum , you ask? It’s a local cryptid; also, in Lewis Carrol’s The Hunting of the Snark , an especially dangerous sort of Snark. 

Think twice before throwing the first stone, you killjoys : Police arrested a [Yale alumnus] on Monday morning after he was allegedly seen ...

The challenging heat-shield part should start at around 10 minutes before 7pm Central this evening, Friday, and be over in less than 15 minu...

A little ‘70s psychedelic-a to start the weekend. 

Probably most people are familiar with the familiar pronouns of early Modern English, such as thee . However, Old English had a whole group ...

I think I actually agree that Iryna Zarutska's murderer is incompetent to stand trial . The problem is, I'm not sure our system is s...

Glen Reynolds on the madness of crowds: In 1931, a German publisher released a book titled “One Hundred Authors Against Einstein,” in whic...

As I said below, debasing the currency he's trying to spend.

It's long been my opinion that President Trump learned his political rhetoric during his time with the World Wrestling Federation/Entert...