UPDATE:  Happy Independence Day.

And 249 years ago today ...

About an hour ago. Will be signed into law by this evening.

Conan stands watch over the pork In preparation for the Independence Day feast, I have had a pork butt in the smoker since the early morning...

WaPo's Monica Hesse on the subject of Alligator Alcatraz : [Trump] added: “Snakes are fast but alligators — we’re going to teach them ho...

I will pause the discussion of the Nicomachean Ethics there for the Independence Day holiday, which I hope will be an extended one for all o...

We must, however , not only describe virtue as a state of character, but also say what sort of state it is. We may remark, then, that every ...

Next we must consider what virtue is. Since things that are found in the soul are of three kinds- passions, faculties, states of character, ...

The question might be asked , what we mean by saying that we must become just by doing just acts, and temperate by doing temperate acts; for...

 At least two people were killed in Idaho on Sunday afternoon after firefighters were ambushed in a sniper attack as they responded to a fi...

(H/t: Wretchard .) Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei claims victory over Israel, "a big slap in the face" to the U.S. "I offer my...

  The thing is that we know that the same three liberal justices each speak more than any male justice during oral arguments. Justice Jacks...

The Washington Post carried a recent column by Monica Hesse arguing that, actually, liberals love America .  You couldn’t buy [Pop Tarts] wh...

We must take  as a sign of states of character the pleasure or pain that ensues on acts; for the man who abstains from bodily pleasures and ...

At the end of an insightful post about assassinations , real and verbal, the Orthosphere raises a curious question: I wonder why Israel name...

Doctor Rathbun doesn't use the term of art , but it's what he means. The Asheville Citizen-Times published this opinion piece: The n...

Per a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS confirms that the only court with nationwide jurisdiction is the Supreme Court.

Philosopher Peter Boghossian provides some gentle guidance.

Since, then, the present inquiry does not aim at theoretical knowledge like the others (for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtu...