Let’s have a Celtic tune tonight.   

There is a whole school of interpreting philosophy, following Leo Strauss , that believes in reading philosophers ironically or without assu...

So something really important happened today, and I want to talk about it a bit.  GameStop is a company that sells physical copies of video ...

 If we ever get to heaven, boys, it ain't because we ain't done nothin' wrong.

So I want to "circle back," in the current expression, on akratēs . Remember that in Laws III, the Athenian described this as the ...

 

Akratēs is the Greek word for today's puzzle , the puzzle of someone who knows what is right but does the wrong thing anyway. This is li...

Nothing substantive today. I'm too busy doing taxes and other garbage to think any interesting thoughts. I always liked the smell of gas...

Sadly this year there is no Burns Night supper to attend, all things still being shut down and canceled here in North Carolina. I hear othe...

Mentioned in the comments Friday, a very nice song.

The next important topic the Athenian discusses is punishment for crimes . He has an interesting principle to propose: theft should be puni...

I recommend this book (a B&N link because I'm minimizing the business I do with Amazon as much as possible. I suspect it's ava...

When we get to the highest crime that America knows how to recognize, treason, the Athenian is willing to allow for corruption of the blood ...

When you're not sure what science is exactly, it's hard to know whether you're sidelining or revering it. [I]n the U.S., all 5...

Written about Ronald Reagan, of course, hated in his day as much as any President ever was. Blaze Foley wasn't as well known. Clearly in...

It's bad enough to stop teaching Chaucer; it's worse to replace him with something positively harmful , which these critical studies...

The Ninth Book of the Laws turns to the judicial power. This is a subject on which our own Founders might have wisely spent more time. They ...

Just the other day, I closed a post on the National Guard by saying, "Spare a thought for those poor bastards, pardon my French. They ...

(" Quel squardo sdegnosetto " by Monteverdi) "The kings go up and the kings go down, And who knows who shall rule; Next night...