I forgot to take a picture, but the venison pies were great. I took AVI’s advice and omitted ingredients I wasn’t sure about, but left in Ch...

The sixth book of the Laws contains an important argument on the need to maintain equality versus the need to ensure that not just anyone is...

It's the club soda of philosophies.

I was planning to get to Laws VI today, but we have lost power. I could try reading by candlelight, and perhaps I shall when the meager sun...

  New Year, in the Cimmerian style.

I have a few records that belonged to my grandfather that give "Hank Williams" as the artist -- not Hank Williams, Sr., but just t...

Confer this with all you have read. Is this a refutation, or a confirmation? Is Ireland a proof of his concept, given its commitment to this...

Now I've posted this before, some of you may remember it. The concert goes on for a good ways after, and it's all worth your time, a...

A younger cousin is expecting a child. I called to congratulate him. He asked if we were being safe. “I ride motorcycles for fun,” I told hi...

The rest of Book V wrestles with the problems we identified in the last two discussions, especially the ways in which what we call capitali...

Again, today I'm handling only a few paragraphs of this section, because there's a lot buried in them. The rest of this book turns ...

Today's reading is likewise short, this time because it contains a fun mystery as well as some general principles that need to be discu...

A couple of Danes shipped a foldable capsule to Greenland and lived in it for two months, as an initial proof-of-concept for Moon or Mars e...

 I thought I'd give posting a video a go, using Brave [ Version 1.18.75 Chromium: 87.0.4280.101 (Official Build) (64-bit)] and on an old...

  Quillette has a piece on the eminent author that begins oddly. Ralph Ellison, author of the timeless American classic Invisible Man , was...

Long-time readers will recall that I've suggested for years that, if Global Warming is really a problem, we have a ready engineering sol...

An amusing matter that came up in a discussion today: the Barnum Effect , named after P.T. Barnum. I have long suspected that astrology is m...

Or, an essay on the hapax . 

Here’s the Wren Song .  UPDATE: For dinner tonight I made a variation on Beef Wellington, using the eye of the standing rib roast instead of...

Obviously there is nothing to defend about the ideology of Nazi Germany, nor would I undertake such a defense. Yet I think our friends -- Se...