"To rebuke magnificently is one of the duties of a great polemical writer.".—C.S. Lewis, English Literature in the 16th Century (p. 175).

"Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we shall know everything the eighteenth century didn't know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.". —Randall Jarrell.

What would we do without "studies"?.

Does this Hertz quote for a 9-day rental seem off to anyone else?

So French cooking is even older than we thought!

'AnthonyHatesMayo' hits it out of the park again today at 'Political Questions.'

RT @MiddleearthMixr: They just added an amendment into the Big Beautiful Bill that rewrites The Silmarillion to make Orodreth Gil-Galad’s f….

I can't decide whether to blame Trump or George W. Bush. (Of course, the real culprit is 'climate ch . ').

The 'Abundance' progressives score their first big win in . California?!.

In case you haven't wandered by my 'Political Questions' Substack lately, the humorist known as 'AnthonyHatesMayo' has joined up, and is producing some killer satire.

Happy 95th birthday to Thomas Sowell, who opened one of his best books (Knowledge and Decisions) with: "Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.".

RT @Athens_Stranger: “Anxiety and solicitude about one-sidedness too frequently betray a weakness which generates nothing but many-sidednes….

RT @AjitPai: You can't tell me a @ScottJenningsKY/@CornelWest buddy movie isn't in the works after this teaser.

Brought to you by the designers of the 1947 Tacoma Narrows bridge.

It’s so crazy it just might work!.

RT @timburchett: This is the only man who can save New York City.

RT @dnduplessie: Some Straussian (probably): “Plato is Xenophon with too many adjectives”.

But let's remember that moving some books on sex in school libraries from young to adult sections is censorship and an attack on the First Amendment.

So, within the space of a week, New York announces that it is going back to nuclear power, and then an electoral meltdown happens in NYC. Coincidence? I think not! Nuclear power is clearly unsafe!.

RT @CivitasOutlook: The progressive Abundanauts deserve one maybe two cheers for pointing out the dead end of "everything bagel liberalism,….

RT @TedNordhaus: Gonna go out on a limb here and say that the fact that the three most charismatic figures in the Democratic Party are soci….