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Before you get too excited, no, this is nothing to do with the current fracas in the near orient ; instead it is a work of philosophy by Nig...

Another one bites the dust; at least according to wiki . I'd tell you what the Dork Side thinks, but WUWT is giving me "429 Too Ma...

Middle East news: both sides are trying to avoid giving a definitive answer to those nice USAnian's peace proposal, and are hoping they ...

Welcome to ye merie monthe of jun. Which is always a busy month of rowing - Mays is in swing as I speak - so perhaps that excuses my shame...

Moans Sabine  (5:25 in the video), in the context of GW. The answer of course is because that's what the system rewards; it's what ...

Gangsters in El Salvador are terrified of strongman Nayib Bukele says the Economist, and after noting He protects citizens from crime it ...

At last a somewhat slow spring becomes warm, so it is time to head out to the olde country and check in on the girls. I had gone out a mont...

Ninth Circuit Puts An End to the Kids Climate Case says Volokh. For those not paying attention, in the dim and distant past of 2016,  Phot...

We citizens of comfortable liberal western democracies tend to believe that we have a "right to protest" 1 . But as someone who d...

My title is taken from La Curry ( arch ); but apart from that I can't recommend her post; and sadly but predictably the comments are w...

Following  Wood, 1909, continued I realise it might be worth putting up some of the other old stuff here; and since it came up, I present ...

Via Xitter ,  Moral universals: A machine-reading analysis of 256 societies ; which appears to be a project at the LSE . My  Book Review: ...

Many years ago I transcribed  R. W. Wood: Note on the Theory of the Greenhouse onto my personal website (yes, it really was that long ago;...

Re-reading - for reasons of my own - my much-lauded review of Crowley's Beasts , I find  I will repeat what I said in my review of Hear...

Per SCOTUSblog and any number of other sources Supreme Court rules states cannot remove Trump from ballot for insurrection . This looks lik...

In Godel Escher Bach  there is a story about an Ant Heap. I think it's a conversation between Achilles and the Anteater, but I could be...