There are at least two more issues worth commentary in this book. The second of those two is the regulation of drinking, about which the co...

"No prophet speaks to calm our grief/But all in silence mourn"--that line gets me every time. This tune being Common Meter, these...

I don't know if they build or fight as well as they make commercials, but this is really something.

After we get to the idea that art and moral education are linked, there is an interesting question raised about who is the right kind of jud...

The part I elided over in the first book returns strongly in the opening of the second book:  the importance of drinking, singing, and danci...

A little later in the dialogue, the Athenian proposes that the real reason for which Cretan law should be praised, and the proper purpose of...

From Maggie's Farm, news of a pharmacological breakthrough that might prove pretty wonderful.

Or, Robert E Howard was right, again . 

As a useful way to spend my evenings, I am reading Plato's Laws from the beginning. I may occasionally make notes here, mostly for myse...

BLM Central might not be the Marxist insurgency threat they proclaimed, because it looks like they just kept all that money and spent it on ...

This author’s idiom annoys me, but the subject is an curious aspect of linguistics and philology. 

Happy St. Andrew's Day. If you followed along with the Scottish steak pies, you've got some appropriate leftovers today!

These are from Japan ; as the article points out, Japan is one of only a few places you can get timely suicide numbers.  All the usual cavea...

Today is, as those of you interested already knew, the first Sunday of Advent. I hope you have a good period of preparation for the Yuletide...

A report  archived from Johns Hopkins student newspaper: total death statistics aren’t up this year, as increased deaths from the virus are ...

It is a strange place, indeed, where news reporters can editorialize but op-ed editorials cannot.

James via AVI: In King Lear (III:vii) there is a man who is such a minor character that Shakespeare has not given him even a name: he is mer...

This year I’m making just a turkey breast. Quick meal for only three people this year; no holiday travel, either. It’s not that I am virtuou...

I'm a fair hand at calculating odds in common gambling games, but some of you are more skilled at mathematics than myself. Have a look ...