Because of events, I have postponed this week's Class until next Thursday. Many on the Right, very understandably, are calling for violence in the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder.…

Twice last week, that we heard of anyway, two different blacks murdered two different white women. (And of course many others.) The one on the left you know, if you…

RFK, Jr: "When I was a kid, we had shooting clubs at our school." "There's never been a time in America, in the history of humanity, where people walk into…

I don't often discuss cheating in science, because the conclusion "It's bad, don't do it" doesn't need explication. Even those cheating are clever enough to swear to the conclusion's truth.…

A stupid man will make stupid mistakes. He will show up on TV being escorted into the back of a police cruiser. An intelligent man will make intelligent mistakes. He…

Let's suppose a group of men formed a brotherhood. Suppose this group is exclusive and entirely extra-governmental, a group with no or only tacit official support. Suppose the men fund…

One of my Inside-The-Academic-Beast contacts told me recently that the new crop of professors hired at a major well known university were unimaginative, nice and, most damning of all, boring.…

Briggs note: Since my take is that the government ought to get out of science grants altogether, I owe it to you to provide an insider's view (since I am…