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Daily Mail : A new pill could stop binge-drinking habits in just days. The drug, called naltrexone, has been shown to halve the amount peopl...

Good NYT feature on the history of internet trolls: One afternoon in the spring of 2006, for reasons unknown to those who knew him, Mitchell...

"wakes you up with the smell of real cooked bacon"

Carl Schramm & Robert Litan, in the current issue of The American argue for a new entrepreneurial agenda. Excerpt: By the policies the...

John Derbyshire comments on the trouble Irish journalist Kevin Myers has courted from the totalitarian PC establishment, over his controver...

Jonah Goldberg has a single week's roundup: Okay, toddlers who don't like foreign food are racists . Non-Muslim kids who won't ...

String theory sceptic, Peter Woit discusses , among other subjects, his controversial book on the science of String Theory, Not Even Wrong

James Robertson reviews David Boyd Haycock's latest book A Monkey Business , about the history of man's quest for immortality ‘To ph...

According to Times Online

New Scientist : A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people's heads. The devic...

Nigel Warburton has resumed his podcasting of his book Philosophy: The Classics , with a chapter which featured in later editions only, on K...

Sunday Times review of The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags by Tim Tzouliadis During the Great Depression of the 1930s, th...

From the latest New York Review of Books , a survey of the life work of Jean-Pierre Changeux, including his most recent, The Physiology of T...

John Zmirak responds to Tom Woods with the second essay in a symposium on sovereignty: Every time I read an anarchist essay like Tom Woods’s...

Kids TV as conceived by the degenerate genocidal culture of the Palestinians: Assud the rabbit vows to "kill and eat Jews" and glo...

Cracked : Some technologies are like a Tyrannosaurus running down the highway (without the awesome). They made sense once and now they'r...

Radley Balko : ABC's 20/20 looks at the sad case of Rachel Hoffman, the 23-year-old college student murdered after police recruited her...

Melanie Phillips: A detailed poll of Muslim students conducted by the Centre for Social Cohesion has produced evidence of horrifying attitud...

Daily Mail : The march of the Big Brother state under Labour was highlighted last night as it was revealed that there are now 1,043 laws tha...

Assures Jeff Jacoby: ARE YOU anxious? Dejected? Fearful? Why wouldn't you be, considering the barrage of rotten news assaulting you from...

Free audiobook download of the Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle , which was compiled in 1996 by Richard Ebeling, and includes essays by R...

excerpt: There are plenty of ways to commit suicide, but few more public than turning a multi-ton moving train full of passengers into a bul...

Heather MacDonald: The New York Times is determined to show that women are discriminated against in the sciences; too bad the facts say oth...

Ebert's review: “Batman” isn’t a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origi...

Thomas Sowell: We don’t look to arsonists to help put out fires but we do look to politicians to help solve financial crises that they playe...

From Charles Krauthammer's latest: Americans are beginning to notice Obama's elevated opinion of himself. There's nothing new ab...

Bruce Caldwell talks about his book Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek in an excellent hour-long conversation ...

From an interview with Bill Warner, the director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam (CSPI): Dhimmis begin with Mohammed. He was ...

Daily Mail

A RUSSIAN man has been crowned world champion in the novelty sport of chess boxing, a game that requires equal skill at moving pawns and thr...

Gene Healy essay adapted from his new book The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power : "I ain...

In this hour-long TV interview , Andrew McCarthy discusses his book Wilful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad with radio host Hugh Hewitt. Pu...

Michael Gazzaniga, the father of cognitive neuroscience, and Tom Wolfe, the original New Journalist discuss status, free will, the human con...

Christopher Hitchens : Here is the most chilling way I can find of stating the matter. Until recently, “waterboarding” was something that Am...

Daniel Flynn: Backing a major-party candidate for president would have been anathema to Michael Klonsky 40 summers ago, when the organizatio...

New Yorker (from last year): The hardest substance in the human body is the white enamel of the teeth. With age, it wears away nonetheless,...

Wonderful collection of Bryan Magee's highly regarded TV interviews with philosophers is freely available here , and includes: A.J. Ayer...

Interesting South Bank Show documentary about experimental composer Steve Reich (in 6 parts)

As a duck, trying to battle with a heron and force it to give up its quarry was always going to be a difficult task. These amazing pictures ...

Wall Street Journal : Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we ar...

Steve Sailer : Uncovering the roots of the disastrous home mortgage bubble that popped last year will keep economic historians busy for deca...

Review of Andrew Bostom's follow-up to The Legacy of Jihad : Particularly since the late, lifelong Muslim Brother, Yasser Arafat, shift...

Chris Orr, at The New Republic, has an amusing slam: M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie, The Happening , is not merely bad. It is an asto...

Christgau: I don't see the point of comparing the most prodigious young jazzman since David Murray if not Ornette to anyone less titanic...

John Horgan is not convinced: I'm 54, with all that entails. Gray hair, trick knee, trickier memory. I still play a mean game of hockey,...

Don Boudreaux, at Cafe Hayek , quotes William Manchester's 1992 book A World Lit Only By Fire on the romantically rustic lifestyles of ...

Two excellent episodes of Standford's Philosophy Talk show with John Perry & Ken Taylor: Human are conscious, billiard balls are not...

Dana Stevens, at Slate , takes a look at Herzog's latest: Werner Herzog is one of the earth's disappearing natural resources: a film...

Reports Nicholas Wade in the New York Times : Evolution’s recipe for making a brain more complex has long seemed simple enough. Just increas...

Michael Shermer on Alan Sokal's new book about his famous hoax: Decades of careful and extensive research into cognition and the psychol...

Jonathan Haidt discusses his 2006 'positive psychology' book The Happiness Hypothesis with Will Wilkinson on this recent episode o...

Now online - Hanna Rosin's Atlantic Monthly article on the not unpredictable fallout of a celebrated social engineering project to tear...

Jonah Goldberg: Sen. John McCain said this week he would not drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the same reason he “would not ...

Nicholas Carr , from the current edition of Atlantic Monthly: “Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercom...

Good old BBC2 Horizon documentary on Richard Dawkins's book The Blind Watchmaker (in 5 parts).

For years I’ve been active in Freedom House, the oldest of the private organizations advocating for international freedom and democracy. We’...

Bill Warner : Have you ever heard someone say: “What we need is a new translation of the Koran.” What they really mean is that we need a Kor...

Benjamin Powell : I do not want to work in a third world "sweatshop." If you are reading this on a computer, chances are you don...

New, free, audiobook version of Thomas C. Taylor's 1980 An Introduction to Austrian Economics . Text version here

John O'Sullivan : Ireland seems to have voted a convincing No — by about 54 to 46 percent — to the proposed Lisbon Treaty that would hav...

From CareerBuilder.com's annual survey of the worst interview mistakes : • Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to le...

Evan Goldstein : "You see that?" Richard H. Thaler asks as we ride down picturesque Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. Thaler knows the ...

Bruce Bawer : Islam divides the world into two parts. The part governed by sharia, or Islamic law, is called the Dar al-Islam , or House of ...

Timothy Lee reviews Clay Shirky's new book on the Digital Age Here Comes Everybody . Sample: One of the most talked-about consequences...

Newsweek : For centuries the Mazatec Indians have chewed Salvia divinorum, a hallucinogenic member of the sage family, to treat diarrhea, he...

Gary Marcus discusses his latest book on the nature of the mind and the brain, Kluge , with Carl Zimmer in this Bloggingheads diavlog . Ama...

Amazon.com: With his unparalleled dulcet voice, Texas honky-tonker Lefty Frizzell represents the crucial link between traditional country an...

Wall Street Journal : Often it seems as though American higher education exists only to provide gag material for the outside world. The late...

After a "mammoth, six-year effort to poll and interview tens of thousands of Muslims in more than 35 countries with Muslim majorities o...

John Derbyshire : In the early weeks of 1984, for an hour each Tuesday and Sunday evening, a strange silence fell over England, or at any ra...

Ananova : A Bosnian man whose home has been hit an incredible five times by meteorites believes he is being targeted by aliens. Experts at B...

Joe Queenan : The release of the Paris Hilton vehicle The Hottie and the Nottie has revived the debate as to which is the worst motion pictu...

A fine episode of William F. Buckley's long-running political debate show Firing Line , from 1985, featuring political scientist Kenneth...

Science News Review

Ananova.com : Scientists have invented a pair of glasses that will help you remember where you put your car keys. The Smart Goggle records e...

Jeffrey Kasser's brilliant, thought-provoking 36 lecture series on the Philosophy of Science can be purchased and downloaded here . Cou...

Simon Blackburn reviews Descartes , A.C. Grayling's new biography of the founder of modern philosophy: You need not be much of a mathema...

Good feature article by Joel Achenbach in the latest National Geographic: If you were to dig a hole 300 feet straight down from the center o...

Terry Teachout reviews a new history of Stalin's Great Terror: Why are so many Americans unaware that Joseph Stalin was as brutal, syst...

Robert Christgau: Here the Heads become a quintet in an ideal producer-artist collaboration - Brian Eno contributes/interferes just enough. ...

Interesting hour-long interview from University of California TV, part of the Conversations with History series of interviews: Host Harry Kr...

Don't know how long the link will stay good, but you can download mp3s here of a just-discovered, good sound quality, complete Velvet U...

Douglas Hofstadter, Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University discusses his latest book I Am a Strange Loop ...

Rich Lowry : Somewhere 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean, tumbling around the Earth at 17,000 mph, a disabled spy satellite met a fiery end ...

Murray Rothbard's four volume, 1,668 pages, epic history of America from the colonial period to the American Revolution, Conceived in Li...

Daily Telegraph : The director of a Norwegian museum claimed yesterday to have discovered cartoons drawn by Adolf Hitler during the Second W...

Pat Buchanan : When the Great War comes, said old Bismarck, it will come out of "some damn fool thing in the Balkans." On June 28,...

National Review : Europe is in a bad way. And as studly as he can be, Nicolas Sarkozy isn’t likely to save it from itself. So Bruce Thornton...

New essay from Fouad Ajami, at the New York Times Book Review : It would have been unlike Samuel P. Huntington to say “I told you so” after ...

Ronald Bailey : One of the perennial concerns of conservative bioethicists like Leon Kass and Francis Fukuyama is that some portion of human...

Venerable rock critic Robert Christgau's "Dean's List" for 2007 is now online Here's the top 25 (minus 2 Lil' Wayn...

Steven Pinker's latest essay for New York Times Magazine: Which of the following people would you say is the most admirable: Mother Tere...

Another day, another story of enterprise-destroying constraints placed on voluntary productive exchange by zealous, self-serving bureaucrats...

Was Mohammed a Hitler who succeeded? Yes, says Islam scholar Andrew Bostom. Comments author Lawrence Auster: The idea is quite simple. It...