In Book III we will get our first fully described virtue, courage. Courage is not the most important virtue for Aristotle -- indeed, it is n...

The videos today are of a sobbing female police officer in the UK crying that nobody from the crowd came to help her. Colonel Kurt points o...

The earliest ones are not technically rifles but muskets . This is an official Marines.mil site, so you can enjoy the history with confidenc...

The Assad regime carried out mass bureaucratic murder . That story is quite horrifying; you may not wish to read it. I will not quote the mo...

This is the last chapter of Book II.   That moral virtue is a mean, then, and in what sense it is so, and that it is a mean between two vic...

It's really just an updated version of what Weber said a long time ago -- see the sidebar for that commentary -- but it is where we are...

The boys at Free Beacon are misunderstanding this Russian offer , I think.  "Russia has technological solutions for uranium depletion a...

A reasonably decent analysis of the Alvarado attack. The author is using the language of military intelligence, including specifying MLECOA...

In the comments to the post below, I mentioned that the 'balancing point' I keep talking about in my commentary is my own insight an...

Noting a 'professor of American studies' who wants to dismantle America, this Substack asks :  Ironically, she’ll be teaching this a...

This chapter is a fairly technical spelling-out of how Aristotle conceives of his model. It's an analog to mathematics, but it isn't...

I'm amused with this post on education at the Orthosphere, and approve greatly of the author's unapologetic use of sed contra (and...

This is one of those cases where everyone knows they're lying, and they know we know, but they persist. At least it's opening a few ...

By the standards of modern books, these are very dense sections: they aren't very long, strictly speaking, but there's a lot to unde...

Mexicans are unhappy about American aliens  invading their neighborhoods. In handwritten signs and graffiti, the protesters made their anger...

If it is thus , then, that every art does its work well- by looking to the intermediate and judging its works by this standard (so that we o...

Yesterday I took I-40 through the Pigeon River Gorge for the first time since Hurricane Helene. The interstate was closed again by recent fl...

  UPDATE:  Happy Independence Day.

And 249 years ago today ...

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