Opinion Dominion

Looking at the 'real' reason for Trump's Dallas trip... ....you have to suspect that some of those half mill donors must be...

I think Jonathan Chait's column " The Still-Vital Case of Liberalism in a Radical Age " sums it up pretty well: The precondi...

People, people:  let's calm down a bit. It's always tricky, judging where righteous anger turns into counter-productive acts of me...

The Guardian has reported: Pangolin scales have been removed from an official 2020 listing of ingredients approved for use in traditional...

JK Rowling writes a detailed explanation of her interest in, and concern about, transgender issues.  It's well written, and to my mind, ...

*   Yeah, this business of attacking statues:  it's starting to get a bit too much of a "cultural revolution 2" vibe about it....

Here's what follows in the tweets: Essentially, it appears this was a classic "good guy with a gun" scenario. And onc...

Well, this is all amusingly odd.   From a review of a book about Walt Whitman: Bram Stoker wrote a fan letter to Whitman in which he seems...

France seems to have a lot of people who still use handkerchiefs - my kind of people.  Of course, they might all be over 70, but who knows...

JK Rowling's tweets about the transgender issue, and Radcliffe's entry into the debate on the side of transgender activists ("a...

What with all the disease, violence and protests, it's easy to overlook the bigger picture. This study has very big implications for ...

Yeah, I like highlighting how nutty and isolated in their own fantasy world are Australian wingnuts.  So sue me. This is the same guy, r...

A biographer of Keynes has some interesting things to say about him, and the comparison with Friedman, in an interview at the Washington Pos...

He, and the Murdoch family that employ him, are disgusting.

An interesting long article at Politico about Republicans and their historical relationship with the "law and order" issue. The...

This is in The Guardian: I head the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London, the first of its kind, supported by abou...

Youtube threw this up at me as a recommendation, and I am glad I watched it:  a short film about a 107 year old American woman who is still ...

The always interesting topic of mental illnesses which are specific to particular countries or cultures is given a detailed discussion at BB...