Selling out Dracula? Bran Castle was built in the 14th century to serve as a fortress to protect against the invading Ottoman Turks. The royal family moved into the castle in the 1920s, living there until the communist regime confiscated it from Princess Ileana in 1948. After being restored in the late 1980s and following… Continue reading

I (finally) just finished Lee Smolin’s The Trouble With Physics. There have been many reviews and lots of back-and-forth on the scientific blogosphere regarding its main theme: that String Theory (or more accurately String Theories) is a dead end unless the establishment realizes that more encouragement and backing needs to be given to those promising… Continue reading

It’s Friday and time for a dose of Krauthammer: The senator was vexed. The U.S. auto companies were resisting attempts by her and other Senate well-meaners to impose a radical rise in fuel efficiency by 2017. Why can’t they be more like the Chinese, she complained. Or, to quote Sen. Dianne Feinstein precisely: “What the… Continue reading

Ross Douthat yawns his way through Christopher Hitchens’ new tome. But hey, every talented writer, including Hitch, is entitled to be a bore on one subject. Then again, maybe not.

Robert T. Miller defends Richard Dawkins.