I really wanted to get to Article VII because Aristotle here is quoted saying something that I think is badly argued. The question of the a...

Article VI says that "anger desires evil." That is a very strange thing for Aristotle to say, because he defined the good in terms...

 Article V  looks very dense, but its easy to sketch. The question is whether desire or anger is more natural to man. Aquinas references Ar...

On Substack, Bari Weiss sums up the week's craziness, including California's decision to trap all 8th graders in pre-algebra in the...

This fox made an appearance on my lurking neighbor's driveway:

I have time for a second round of this today, and I find I'm warming to the subject. So, Article 4 : Does Anger require an act of reason...

It’s the last stronghold of freedom.  They just did it again. 

This has been a deeply profitable, honorable and honest discussion which is almost entirely unlike the kind of useless talk we have so much ...

What we often call The Blizzard of ‘93 came in April, so it’s not like I have never see this before. I’ve seen it once. 

I am only a few episodes into this, but I cannot recommend it strongly enough. It’s a work of real, substantial beauty. 

That’s not a lute, exactly. It’s a theorbo, arguably the most beautiful musical instrument ever made by the hands of man. Almost the most be...

I'm going to move on to the second article: whether the object of anger is good or evil. It seems like anger is a bad thing; certainly o...

I'm less skeptical than many on the right about Ukraine, so Col. Douglas MacGregor is saying things in this interview that I don't l...

This is kind of the opposite of the 'old Country sound' post. This was never a beautiful song as a punk rock bit. Put in this contex...

The Atlantic explains . 

This is the Firefighter tartan, which I guess Tex and I can both wear. My father, were he living; my son, after me, who has also earned the ...

More needs to be said about the role of 'contraries.' This is a fundamental concept for Aristotelian philosophy. The basic explanati...

Princeton canceled a celebration of 19th century Jewish art because the central figure — and one other — supported the Confederacy. Ezekiel...

This weekend I was busy with emergency vehicle qualification, so I didn't have time to respond at length to an anonymous comment* citing...

The Mongols had it down.