Tom has asked that we go through Aristotle's most famous work on ethics . This is well worth doing; indeed almost nothing is more worth ...

Our friend Mr. Foster has a post on the dangers of having too many people with credentials aspiring for power. There is a great deal there t...

This is a good survey of the work and life of Alasdair MacIntyre, who once described himself as a Roman Catholic atheist: "Only the Cat...

In the LA Review of Books, an argument that Marx is newly important to America . It begins with the argument that he has already been good f...

Just yesterday, remarking on a French 'right to die' law, Glenn Reynolds quipped that the right to die somehow always turns into ...

As celebrated by two Americana acts. The first is a contemporary model. The second is a classic. Riding around the country these last few da...

In the Pentagon parking lot, while waiting for the ride to begin, I ran into an old friend who had told me some months ago that he had been ...

While down on the Mall after the ride, we also visited the Natural History Museum. I thought the dinosaur displays were fun, but my comrades...

I have been to most of the Smithsonian museums over the years, but this time we went to one I hadn't: the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center ju...

The President's Memorial Day address included a line that probably gathered little notice, but deserves some remark.  President Trump’s ...

I had meant to ride back today, but the weather coming in after this weekend was not promising. We made the ride yesterday instead, which wa...

 

 

The city government doesn’t care for the event, and at the end forces all riders onto I-395 into Virginia with no clear way back into town. ...

The same Oxford memoir from which I drew the Chesterson quotations a few minutes ago mentioned Margot Asquith, second wife of Prime Minister...

The incomparable G.K. Chesterton, from a debate and conversation at Oxford: "Because I bow down to the sceptre, and because I take the ...

 

First light, my son and I will be departing on motorcycles for the big ride  on Memorial Day weekend. Hopefully there might be good stories...

Our friend David Foster has pulled together a summary post with links to several others, on the question of whether wages and happiness sta...

It's probably a mistake to universalize a lesson from a single loser like this guy who murdered two Israeli diplomats for no apparent r...