Newmark's Door

Another Important Question answered.

An 18th century Hungarian theology student figured out the Gypsies originated in India.

A useful analysis of famous Letter.

Also posted for the author's credential, one the likes of which I've never seen before: "Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD, is Chancellor's Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, Philanthropy, and Medical Humanities and Health Studies at Indiana University".

Fine story related by Mike Munger.

We may not grasp how essential systems work, but that means that we should always be skeptical of proposals to change those systems based on the “science” that reformers imagine they understand.

Maybe the only thing more astonishing than Biden's present is his past.

Makes the case--which I hadn't seen before--that Lincoln was a good commander in chief.

I'm sold. (And that's even before the probably apocryphal story for which the "Coolidge Effect" is named.)

Brian Riedl criticizes a popular Liberal thesis: the U.S. economy performs better under Democrat presidents.

A Tweet thread documenting some of the "elite" folks who wrote that the lab leak theory of COVID was a debunked conspiracy theory and shouldn't even be discussed.

A defense.

Legal conservatives would do better to hold fast to the principles that have served them well, to safeguard that which it has been their special duty to defend. They would do better to insist on the rule of the dead.