For ease, I am using the W.D. Ross translation that is available on the sidebar (also here ). It is not the very best translation. Terence I...

This section is one of the most important parts of the EN to grasp in order to understand the project. I've written about this short sec...

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and ...

The interview with me on the subject of my Arthurian book that I mentioned a few days ago is now posted.  The book, Arms & White Samit...

This article in the NYT gets at something I have long believed: therapy culture has significant costs, here to include childlessness. [I]t ...

Tom has asked that we go through Aristotle's most famous work on ethics . This is well worth doing; indeed almost nothing is more worth ...

Our friend Mr. Foster has a post on the dangers of having too many people with credentials aspiring for power. There is a great deal there t...

This is a good survey of the work and life of Alasdair MacIntyre, who once described himself as a Roman Catholic atheist: "Only the Cat...

In the LA Review of Books, an argument that Marx is newly important to America . It begins with the argument that he has already been good f...

Just yesterday, remarking on a French 'right to die' law, Glenn Reynolds quipped that the right to die somehow always turns into ...

As celebrated by two Americana acts. The first is a contemporary model. The second is a classic. Riding around the country these last few da...

In the Pentagon parking lot, while waiting for the ride to begin, I ran into an old friend who had told me some months ago that he had been ...

While down on the Mall after the ride, we also visited the Natural History Museum. I thought the dinosaur displays were fun, but my comrades...

I have been to most of the Smithsonian museums over the years, but this time we went to one I hadn't: the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center ju...

The President's Memorial Day address included a line that probably gathered little notice, but deserves some remark.  President Trump’s ...

I had meant to ride back today, but the weather coming in after this weekend was not promising. We made the ride yesterday instead, which wa...