A Yellow Guard

US intel agencies insist Russia is bluffing in Ukraine, reports @elilake . http://t.co/eEag0QR2hw — davidfrum (@davidfrum) February 28, 20...

Tim Stanley has a good blogpost in The Telegraph , although I find his use of the phrase "new Cold War" as a lazy shorthand for...

My blog post on Sunday about Ukraine disagreed with a New York Times analysis of the driving factors behind the crisis there, particularly...

I had previously mentioned the case of Herbert Smulls, a man executed by the State of Missouri before the United States Supreme Court had e...

In today's New York Times ($) David Herszenhorn concludes that, in part, the current crisis and violence in Ukraine is a leftover from ...

I didn't expect myself to be writing a blog post about figure skating, but sour grapes really are very unedifying.  Slate.com reports th...

This story originally caught my attention when I saw a tweet from Niall O'Dowd as I boarded a plane for a week's holiday in the U.S...

This classical Latin question of 2,000 years ago has no greater relevance than to Ireland today.  The national police force, An Garda Síoch...

The world seems remarkably nonchalant about the fact that British National Party leader Nick Griffin's love child by Mr. Bean appears po...

The Washington Post today has an interesting profile of Judge Arenda Wright Allen who penned the historic judgment (covered in my last blogp...