This is the last commentary on Book IV . With the completion of Book IV, we are approximately a third of the way through the Laws . If any o...

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There's a refreshing absence of lunacy from these public-medicine policy proposals for a vaccine roll-out.

This debate about whether to call Joe Biden's wife "Dr." is more annoying than it should be. It's a courtesy title. No one...

I talked to Jim Hanson yesterday, and he is not at all convinced there is anything to the Dominion stuff. He used to work in cybersecurity, ...

The post "Nothing to see here" was deleted because Blogger became non-operational until I deleted it. Here is a screenshot, though...

I want to talk a bit about the approach to government that the Athenian is recommending as the ideal. To people who lived through the 20th c...

Beethoven was perhaps born on this day, though what we have recorded is the date of his baptism, which was tomorrow. Apparently Charles Schu...

Now to return to the Laws , which is our proper inquiry at this time.  Plato's Athenian now begins to ask after what the best form of go...

If you're a regular reader of AVI's page, you know he's got a series called " Undeceptions " going. It's well wort...

By KA-BAR , of course. I've been wearing my KA-BARs a lot more since moving to North Carolina. Georgia law -- a law I helped draft -- al...

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A forensic audit is released to the public on authority of a Federal judge.  "Ramsland’s team concluded that Dominion’s system 'in...

We will not get much farther into Book IV today, as Plato brings up and then disposes of quickly two titanic subjects. The first is immigra...

Since we have heard so much talk from Plato about the universal laws of beauty in music, perhaps it would be well to take a moment to play s...

One of the men David Allan Coe said you 'don't have to call me,' Charlie Pride, has died at 86.

It is fitting that this section falls on the same day as the Army-Navy Game, which is being played at West Point this year. This section tr...

Vox published an article yesterday describing the failure of the Free State Project , a program I remember people recruiting for back in the...