When I was a youth I loved The Three Musketeers . I eventually read all million-plus words of the full series, though none of it was as sati...

Gandalf responded to “Good morning!” rather explosively in The Hobbit. I mean that it is a pleasant evening, and I hope that yours is good a...

Can Elon Musk be stopped ? They'll pull out all the stops to try. He's an existential threat, according to their own sniveling, hy...

When Texas Gov. Abbott first started threatening to ship illegal immigrants to blue strongholds, my concerns were only two: I don't wan...

More wrench-turning this morning. I actually like vehicle maintenance as long as nothing goes wrong. This morning I set up my grandfather’s ...

His experience was very similar . Imagine you’re a Blackfeet kid growing up in the windswept pastures twenty miles east of Midland, with no ...

A Princeton professor says he “envision[s] a free speech and academic discourse that is flexed to one specific aim, and that aim is the pro...

This is the last article on anger, and I'm going to go through it a little differently because I want to talk about the Greek a bit. It...

My same lurking neighbor caught an excellent portrait of one of the three alligators who live in our pond. This one's getting big. He ...

 

On Palm Sunday, an etymological reflection of just how important the Ancient Greek world was to the Church. Both of the leading terms still...

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 ...