So the home where the strategic planning session was had, of all things, an El Camino SS parked in the driveway. I asked who it belonged to;...

In my last full day in the National Capital Region, I’m helping to run a strategic planning session in Georgetown. I don’t usually get over ...

The ground here was carefully chosen; it is sometimes in fact a legal requirement that soldiers etc. refuse to obey unlawful orders. It’s no...

“Dark humor is like food under Communism: Not everyone gets it.” Also like Communism, it sounds promising… …but turns out to be deeply disa...

I’ll be back in DC from tomorrow until Saturday morning. David Foster and I will be meeting for lunch; if any of the rest of you are in town...

We finally made some headway in the child custody case I'm helping a neighbor with. We were experiencing unexpected difficulty getting t...

One last chapter on pleasure, then we close out the EN with a discussion of happiness. For this reason pleasures seem, too, to differ in ki...

These chapters on pleasure are significantly longer than most of what we've seen earlier in the book.  What pleasure is, or what kind of...

  Immediately  this next chapter gets technical in a way that the book hasn't explained. Nor again, if pleasure is not a quality, does i...

So here's a fun bit of philology I learned today: " nickname " had the word eke in its forefront until people added the "...

Those of you who aren't fathers may not understand this, but bear with those of us who are. Today my son, in whom I am well pleased, was...

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal ...