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Land of Unconscious Genius

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american conservative by Declan Leary This is a sentence of no particular consequence, pulled from an essay on language by the late Cormac McCarthy. Little talk of dolphins precedes or follows it; it →

Re-Education Camp

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american conservative by John Hirschauer On Saturday, a man who took a picture with the president of the United States flashed his fake breasts on the White House lawn. It would be nice if we lived →

Derussifiying Russian Art

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american conservative by Katya Sedgwick Andy Warhol was definitely not a Ukrainian. The artist was born into a family of Ruthenian descent and raised in a Pittsburg ethnic ghetto. By the time his →

Take Us to Your Leader

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american conservative by Declan Leary Imagine man conquers the vastness of the cosmos. Whether by wormhole travel, suspended animation, or some other means of folding two points in far space →

Where To, Academic Man?

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american conservative by Jay Schalin A good friend—a retired professor of science at a prestigious university—despairingly sent me yet another example of the cancellation of information challenging →

Cultural NIMBYism Comes to Kansas

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​american conservative​​​ by R. McKay Stangler Kansas City finds itself in the news of late, not for barbecue-related reasons or any achievements of our football team of some repute, but rather for a →

Bad Fruit

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​american conservative​​​ by Declan Leary There was a time in living memory when Sen. Ted Cruz was widely perceived as the rightward edge of American politics. He was as hawkish as Genghis Khan, as →

Civilization-tracing project authenticates 5,000-year history

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​global times​​​ By Yi Yan The study of the origin, formation, development, as well as the characteristics, mechanisms, and traits of Chinese civilization attracts great attention worldwide. For a →

Where does the ‘ñ’ come from? The history of a very special Spanish letter

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the conversation The letter ñ is the emblem of Spanish, the mother tongue of almost 500 million people worldwide. But what is the origin of the sound and of this curious letter? Why don’t we find the →

Madrid's Forgotten Nobelist

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american conservative by David Randall A father and a daughter pass each other on the stairs of an assignation-house. Julita, when she gets down to the mezzanine level, bumps into Don Roque. “Hello, →

Earliest evidence of kissing pushed back 1,000 years

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the conversation Lip kissing is an act that’s so natural and common in many present-day societies it is easily taken for granted. But it’s not actually clear whether people have always been kissing, →

An archeological find aligns with one of the seminal Old Testament stories

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american thinker By Andrea Widburg One of the important things to remember about Biblical archeology is that our modern understanding keeps changing as the earth keeps disgorging materials hidden for →

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