Even if we didn't want to support Ukraine's fight, a sensible way of spending our military budget would be to give cash to the Ukrainians to try stuff out and then noting down the answers. (View Post)

Syria and Israel have been mostly at peace for decades, even if there was no final peace treaty. Syria has taken almost zero offensive action against Israel under its new government. Israel's wa… (View Post)

And the problem is that regular people -- or, worse, journalists -- uncritically pick up on this propaganda and start repeating it. We get that here all the time. (View Post)

I don't have to be pro something to not want it banned. We should err on the side of letting people make their own choices and letting them do what they want. There are plenty of more dangerous … (View Post)

So much new is being discovered, it's hard to find an up-to-date book. Charles Mann's "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" in 2005 was excellent, with a focus o… (View Post)