One last time.  UPDATE: Easy day. Those things only weigh 175 pounds, it turns out. 

It only lasts a few weeks, but it is something to see.  The Devil’s Courthouse from NC 215.  Balsam Lake, where bald eagles nest in the spri...

I Came across this piece of art I'd never heard of before, and thought it was quite interesting! Sort of a high end "Dogs Playing P...

The San Francisco Chronicle, wondering if the war has begun or not, notices something I pointed out back during my trip to DC in August (wh...

Revolution is sometimes just and proper , and the decision about when the terms of the Declaration have been met is necessarily made by in...

Closing Book VIII, more comparisons between friendships political and actual . Differences arise also in friendships based on superiority; f...

Today's is a longer chapter.  There are three kinds of friendship, as we said at the outset of our inquiry, and in respect of each some ...

 ...they have a profile of Harmeet Dhillon , the forthright and effective DOJ Civil Rights Division director.  “I have sued numerous hospita...

You have to stand up for offensive speech because that's always where the attempts to restrict free speech begin. Nobody objects to gran...

Matt Taibbi of the Free Press writes : I apologize for Racket readers for my recent absence. I had an accident at the end of the last week, ...

Book VIII continues exploring  the similarities and differences of friendship from other social relationships.   Every form of friendship, t...

Some more photos for you, since the beauty won't last and ought to be enjoyed while it can. Looking Glass Rock, looking south from the B...

I ended yesterday's short reading on constitutions with a note that Book VIII is chiefly about friendship, so we need to tie the politi...

Today we get what amounts to the nickel tour of the Politics ; Aristotle gives us his basic typology of political systems in one paragraph ...

He makes the point that lots of Scots handled cattle in the Highlands, and came to America in the Clearances in the 1700s and 1800s. They di...

It’s really getting nice. Tom said he wants to see Appalachia in autumn. This is the best I can do remotely. 

The FPC is at it again , along with a host of other upstart gun rights groups. Zeroing out the tax stamp isn’t nothing. As we and others hav...

The philosophical concept I talk about occasionally has a troubled relationship with some practical difficulties that are really unrelated: ...

Most likely none of you are planning to be in Athens, Georgia this Wednesday; but if you are, Sweden's leading chamber orchestra will be...

We continue to discuss friendship and community . I've mentioned several times that Aristotle conceives of politics as a sort-of friends...