A version of this post originally ran 12 November 2014, but given the events in Missouri, Yale, and elsewhere, it is time to up the payload. What happens when you…

If Trump wins, his effect on the accelerating downward slide of our culture will be as a speed bump, perhaps a small series of speed bumps. If Hillary wins, she…

These are tweets from last night's debate---which I'm putting up the night of the debate. The timing's important because here is my prediction, the last tweet of the night. https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/788933539664232448…

https://twitter.com/HonkyTonkJew/status/755023292210122752 Being in the minority, which those of us of a reactionary bent surely are, is advantageous for one reason: we do not assume: we know where we are, we…

Wan Baochang (whom I learned of from Richard Spacek) lived some 1,500 years ago. According to the The Taoism Reader, Wan had a spiritual revelation in which he was told…

Editor's note. A particularly apropos (leisurely paced, so relax) essay on the nature of Communism. Recall this is 2017, one hundred years after the successful revolutions in Russia. Just what…