It's usually a lucky day that takes you by the Bobarosa, but in addition to that...

Paradise Lost but Rediscovered. US 25/70 is also the road that goes by the Bobarosa Saloon, hard by the confluence of the Pigeon and the Fre...

I wanted to ride to Hot Springs, NC today, which I had heard was a fun mountain town on a pretty creek.(More about this later.) The road bet...

A beautiful shot from Stonehenge Dronescapes . Today marks the coming of astronomical summer -- also astrological summer, as the sun enters ...

...then when you move, fall like a thunderbolt ." For those with a subscription, the NYT explains exactly how this B-2/GBU-57 plan work...

With thanks to AVI , a story about the war in Israel from another perspective . Major Amir Skoury entered my class in October 2022. He was 3...

 I think he has some good points. Let's hear him out.

I still haven't gotten used to this holiday; I was working at my desk for an hour this morning before I realized that I was supposed to ...

Recent spring rains and flooding have closed I-40 again at the pass through the mountains between Tennessee and North Carolina. Be advised...

From Seth Mandel : The price Iran has paid has not, in fact, been steep or cruel and unusual. In the history of mankind, no nation’s civili...

Today we end the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics . This last chapter lays the foundation for most of the rest of the work.  Since happ...

This is not a political post. I have expressed my thoughts on what is wise and desirable, but I am not in charge of anything: my fellow cit...

 Another short chapter today. These questions having been definitely answered, let us consider whether happiness is among the things that a...

A quite  short section today. That the fortunes of descendants and of all a man's friends should not affect his happiness at all seems a...

Ezra Klien interviews Sarah McBride in the NYT (there is the usual paywall).  [T]he one thing that’s maybe different here is there’s a set o...

There are thirteen chapters in the first book , if you are wondering.  Aristotle was just talking about a complete life being necessary for...

So horses aren't actually great for riot control  because they tend to panic. Police like to use them when they want to push crowds arou...

To all of you who are or have fathers, may you have a happy day. For those of you who are fathers, may it be completely happy in Aristotle...

For this reason also the question is asked, whether happiness is to be acquired by learning or by habituation or some other sort of training...

The Washington Post today admits that there might be a net negative change in immigration this year, " economists warn ." That...