This is huge! A new Syriac chronicle has been discovered dating to around AD 712-13 and covering the 7th century. Absolutely amazing. heritagedaily.com/2026/02/1300-y…

This is a striking example

So on the budget said there's obviously truth to this: more tickets cost more. But I think the principle is fundamentally flawed. Collecting experiences that are just for you is simply inferior behavior to creating experiences with others you love.

I think it is likely that somewhere in the conflict, members of the IDF will have committed war crimes, because such is the nature of war and such is human nature. All of us contain demons. I suspect members of the British, French and American armed forces have committed war

I’m reading Bowling Alone and I’m laughing at the fact that every single one of the things Putnam lists a frequent point of “informal connection” is going (or has already gone) extinct drinks after work coffee with regulars at the diner poker night gossip with neighbors etc

"There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom.

Go girl!!! “I am proud of what my dad did for his people in 1989”, Alysa Liu.

If INDOPACOM is truly the United States' strategic priority, a pivot of resources will only be made possible by eliminating threats, rather than managing them. The TMD inventory can sustain a fight with Iran today, it cannot sustain a fight w/ both them & China tomorrow. 16/17

Fascinating paper "...We find that narrow election of a Republican prosecutor reduces all-cause mortality rates among young men ages 20-29 by 6.6%. This decline is driven predominantly by reductions in firearm-related deaths." drive.google.com/file/d/1aEfIlS…

In October 2000, Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar arrived in Tehran to meet with Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. Here I quote from Eran Hermoni’s excellent book From Auschwitz to Tehran: “Aznar entered the room where the meeting had been scheduled to take place, a

the internet created global liquidity in everything. this includes talent markets, jobs, dating, attention, & status among many other things. this is the single most under realized structural change of the last 20 years. almost no one understands this well. what this means

The most important sentence in the world today has been written by a Chinese analyst:

For the benefit of the historically impaired and geopolitically ignorant, I have decided to compile a list of every act of war Iran has perpetrated against the United States of America between 1979 and Election Day 2016. Not included in this list: - Anything since Trump won his

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

The young man on the left is 19-year-old Shalom Lapid. On the right is Mordechai Lapid, a world famous Jewish refusenik who defeated the Soviet Union and risked his life to leave Russia and come to Israel so he can live as a Jew. On December 6th 1993 a Palestinian car drove by

I’ve been bombed by Russia and lived through Russians being bombed in reply. I’ve never had anything like his bloodthirsty reaction. People with no experience of war think it’s a natural reaction to the trauma of war, it’s not. It’s actually the kind of hate that starts wars.

There are several important lessons here

just a note to the NYT editing team, Israel doesn't start with the letter J so what does it stand for?

Vermont Act 181 might be one of the most worrisome developments I've heard of anywhere in rural America in a long time, and even those of us outside of VT should be paying attention to it. They're more or less making normal rural life illegal in giant swaths of the state by

Reid Wiseman told his two teenage daughters where to find his will before he got on this rocket. He’s raised them alone since their mom died of cancer six years ago. Right now, he is 252,757 miles from home, farther from Earth than any human being has ever been. Wiseman grew up