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Jim Geraghty has a  new piece  at the National Review titled "The Media Have Forgotten Why They Exist." In it he complains that ra...

The main thing to say is that the situation is very confusing and nobody really knows much. The Ukrainians have kept very quiet and issued n...

Tweet from Elon today: Question: how much this kind of political fantasy matter? Do the people who think they are rebels from Star Wars hav...

Those of you who know anything about World War I may recall that the first air to air combat was fought with rifles and pistols; before mach...

How did Ukraine launch a successful surprise attack in this age of constant drone surveillance? David Hambling at Forbes: First, they broug...

Thomas Hoepker, New York 1983 The strange career of Robert Irwin , who battled with Edward Said about orientalism: "It was in my first ...

The northern spotted owl shot to fame as a powerful weapon in the long-running fight over old growth forests in the northwest; millions of a...

Interesting interview  with Glenn Loury, economist best known for being a black conservative and for his spectacular mid-career crack-up inv...

For reasons that are unclear to me, Helsinki, Finland has a remarkable array of Art Nouveau buildings, mainly contructed between 1898 and 19...

Spring View Translated by Arthur Sze The nation is broken, but hills and rivers remain. Spring is in the city, grasses and trees are thi...

At the NY Times, musician Elizabeth Nelson reviews a documentary, co-produced by Eminem, that hails the original online music pirates as th...

Timgad in Algeria was founded by the emperor Trajan in 100 AD as a colony of Roman veterans. It is most famous in our time from aerial image...

Belt Buckle from the Tomb of a Turkish Khan, c. 500 AD Sen. Roger Wicker on the recent US/Russia prisoner exchange: "This exchange spe...

British-Hungarian journalist Victor Sebesteyn covered the revolutions of 1989, and twenty years later he published this book. Even if you fo...

British historian Richard Whatmore has a new book, The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis , and Ritchie Robertson reviewed it in...

On November 17, 1989, there was a student demonstration in Prague. This was the height of the turmoil in the Warsaw Pact: the Berlin Wall ha...

Some updates on what the science is telling us, from this lecture , on YouTube. First, Yamnaya – the Ukrainian people who spread Indo-Europe...

Peter Wehner in the NY Times : Jonathan Rauch, a scholar at the Brookings Institution and my sometime co-author, told me that to begin to u...

As companies move to use AI for routine tasks, they are finding that this sometimes creates more work for their human employees. I already m...