Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

Thomas Reed

8 American Rifles That Changed How People Fight and Train

Writing about the rifle, Jeff Cooper said: “The rifle itself has no moral stature, because it has no will of its own. This, of course, can be in the hands of bad men to bad purposes, but there are more good men than bad, and the latter cannot be...
Thomas Reed

Texts and Egyptian Records Make the Exodus Harder to Dismiss

Did the survival of a story a thousand and five hundred years longer because it belonged to a smaller number of people than was later alleged? The most dramatic protest, in the case of the Exodus, has been the silence of the desert: not the presence of tents all...
James Thompson

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Exposes Chemistry Built Between the Stars

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a calibration experiment for modern astronomy as much as it is a chemical sample. The comet's interstellar orbit, high speed, and changing coma have forced observers into a type of distributed experiment ground-based and space-based telescopes, and even instruments orbiting Mars, all working to provide different...