In Medias Res

[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ] My father decided that we needed to learn how to work--and since he ran a feed mill, getting farm a...

[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic ] Last Friday, Tom Hayden, co-founder of the Students for a Democratic Society, principal author of ...

A year and a half ago, we lost Joe Morello . Now, David Brubeck has joined him . Of the greatest cool jazz quarter of all time--Brubeck on p...

[Cross-posted to By Common Consent ] Yesterday, I and another member of our church went to talk and counsel with a family in our congregat...

Richard Posner has written a defense of the Electoral College , which is one of the several elements of our national Constitution which I do...

This morning I dropped my oldest daughter off at an early-morning church class, then drove to another church, which happens to be our local ...

Writing a book on current events is a complicated crap-shoot. In an age of blogs, social media, and basically instantaneous communication, t...

It starts out as just another one of those delightful bits of perverse fake lip-reading...but then, a little past the 2 minute mark, it turn...

[Cross-posted to Political Context ] About three weeks ago Conor Friedersdorf, a libertarianish blogger for The Atlantic, put up a post ab...

Three weeks from today, I'll be able to vote for my preferred candidate for president of the United States, for my regional congressiona...