It's the end of Banned Books Week , which celebrates banned and challenged books. My archive in the category is here . Last year, we l...

Although the United States of America is a flawed nation, it's good to remember that, in addition to other causes, it was founded in opp...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I've featured "The Parting Glass" before. It's a Scottish song, but is popular in Ireland a...

2023 had some notable films. Since the pandemic, I rarely go to movie theaters anymore, but did see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny ...

(The Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves) ( A Jon Swift picture , which always seems timely during Republican presi...

(Click on the comic strip for a larger view.) In 1959, Pogo creator Walt Kelly wrote: The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always ...

The 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War was earlier this year in March, so the war seems like a fitting subject for this Armis...

It's Banned Books Week , which celebrates banned and challenged books. My archive in this category is here . Last year, we looked at h...

Part One: The Tyranny of the Minority Two government professors at Harvard have a new book out called The Tyranny of the Minority , which ...