So much to read.

Some really good statistics here (and the graph, visible in part below, is pretty interesting): "On balance, mainline Protestants are political moderates. Because of...

This book is entitled Hitler’s Uranium Club: the secret recordings at Farm Hall. It is edited by Gerald Bernstein, writer for The New Yorker magazine, and a physicist as well.

It tells the story...

People keep producing trivial reports, and someone's got to acknowledge their existence; I guess that must be me.  And you.  Which makes this post meta-trivial.  Let's get to it, then. 

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When the President of the Brookings Institution--a career military man, a centrist if ever there was one--feels obliged to talk about "White Supremacy" as a threat at home comparable to "terrorism"...

At first, I envied Austen’s characters this daily face-to-face social interaction: I often go weeks without seeing even my closest friends in person, staying in touch via Facebook or SMS instead...

I'm old enough now, and have a good enough memory, to have lived through several cycles of up/down in the reputation of public figures.  Nixon was a crook!  Yes, but he was a sage geopolitical...

Gonna go see PARASITE with my daughter today, at last, so that should be cool.  I hope something in the below is good for you.  

Misperceptions of both sides of the political fence are rif...

Almost the weekend!  Free time ahead.  How will you fill up the abyss of meaninglessness that yawns before you?  What divertissements will you use to stave off the brooding awareness of death...

Happy birthday!  It's not my birthday but I bet it's roughly 1/365.25ths of the world's popluation's birthday, so to roughly 20 million people--happy birthday!!

I have a gift: Ten different...

I read an interesting piece on Italy yesterday.  It seems like people despair of the place, and never think it'll get better.  (Except in a few corners of the country, anyway.)

What’s...