Opinion Dominion

Two arXiv papers that have caught my attention: *  From someone working in Sao Paulo, Brazil , this one is hard to follow after the introd...

I had noticed ages ago that Barry Lyndon was on Netflix, and I've lived in fear for months that I would check again when finally decidin...

I seem to have missed last month a column in the Catholic Herald that noted comedians from America who are Catholic (or at least, of Cathol...

As he had done previously, Trump tweets as if it is other countries that have to pay tariffs to the US: I would love to know the percen...

I see, via some extract of it at Catallaxy, that Henry Ergas has written a column in The Australian highlighting a new estimate of the numbe...

Turning up on Twitter yesterday - a lengthy NBC report about the rise of vigilante groups in the US that "catfish" adult sex pred...

Gee, Bee Hossenfelder feels pretty triumphant about how arguments from "naturalness", which predicted the Large Hadron Collider wo...

Perhaps not worth spending too much time on this, but here goes: *  yes, the animation is continuously impressive, and very clever in co...

Happy New Year, all. I've been on overseas holiday, hence the blog hiatus.    A holiday post will follow soon - I like writing them,...

The WAPO sums it up: Trump has shown time and again that he cares way more about his supporters and his good standing with them than he ...

One of the great things about not being an American is that I can shrug my shoulders and say "I dunno" on the matter of when it is...

I have been arguing in comments to my post earlier this week about how it is ridiculous to argue that having a second Brexit referendum, now...

OK, time for the spoiler filled commentary on the Red Room - the key aspect, really, of the final episode of the Haunting of Hill House. ...

*   As everyone else on line who has talked about it has already said, the third season of The Good Place got off to a shaky start, particu...

This is a pretty good exchange between Ezra Klein and of the guys who has written a book about this:   “Of the many factors that make up y...

Pretty much by accident last night I saw about 20 minutes of Prince, Son & Heir: Charles at 70 on the ABC.  He came across as down to ...

John Quiggin's post (and the following comments) predicting a revocation of Brexit early in 2019 makes for interesting reading. Does ...

This is more interesting than you might first expect - a very good explanation at the BCC about concrete (including its history) and its pr...

I haven't been much motivated to see any movies recently, and I've noticed that a few major releases have had so-so reviews.  Bohemi...