Philip Zelikow looks at some new books that grapple with the events of 1989 and after that led to the fall of communism. In 1964, Burnham, the author of the nightmare vision that so provoked Orwell, was helping William F. Buckley edit the National Review. (Reagan would later award Burnham the Medal of Freedom.) At… Continue reading

Superb video on how viruses get inside the body. Enough to make me head off for my flu shot right now…. Hat tip.

Predictably, James Carroll can only interpret the Vatican’s overtures to disaffected Anglicans in light of his own emotional hang ups. Fortunately Ross Douthat has not lost the use of his critical faculties and offers the more likely reasons behind Rome’s strategy.

Massimo Pigliucci takes on the scope of skeptical inquiry. Russell Blackford has at him.

Tara Smith with a good post on the consequences of refusing to take vaccines.