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November 2020

November 05, 2020

Love (God and Neighbor!)

What should we do? Love God and love our neighbors. That is today’s agenda, because...

November 04, 2020

The Little Tyrant (Shout to Clitophon)

Some tyrants are great and terrible, say Stalin, but other evil folk may just be...

November 03, 2020

God Be Kind To Us (with bonus reference to Ion)

Sometimes we are stupid. At least sometimes I am stupid. I should not confess anyone...

November 02, 2020

Asking a Real Question (A Nod Toward Meno)

A civilization cannot survive for long if it stops asking the right questions. I used...

November 01, 2020

Nobody is Listening: A Falsehood of Our Time

What if nobody is listening? Listening, God help me, is harder for me than is...

October 2020

October 31, 2020

Cowardice is not Mercy

Nobody wanted to tell him that he should not be president, that he had slipped,...

October 30, 2020

Continuous Wonder: Education for Life

Wonder about difficult, good, true, and beautiful works, but wonder. Few artifacts of human creation...

October 29, 2020

Look the Source Up, Read for Yourself

The job of serpents is to question what has been said, that of Wisdom to...

October 28, 2020

O Procla!

She had a revelation that put together all she had seen and knew. One woman...

October 27, 2020

Beware Powerful Opinion: The Shoddy Argument often Appears in a Trendy Book (Beware the Eristic)

Be brave. Be prophetic, but take care. Jeremiah loved Judah, would take nothing, certainly no...

October 26, 2020

At Least I am Happy. . . No Small Thing

We can be happy. That is no small thing. If you must deal with depression,...

October 25, 2020

The Talkie Man? Beware the Eristic! (Euthydemus)

Against all temptations, keep asking hard questions of the powerful and providing comfort to the...

October 24, 2020

Come On Man: How to Tell Hard Work from a Waste of Time (Euthydemus!)

Loving wisdom can be hard work or you can dodge anyone who might change your...

October 23, 2020

Being a Real Cannibal? A Journalist’s Tale

The tyrant, or simply the establishment, promises you treats if you lie. As a member...

October 22, 2020

Child of the Kingdom

Child of the kingdom, be filled with the Spirit! Nothing but “fullness” thy longing can...

October 21, 2020

Child of the World

Child of the world, are you tired of your bondage? Weary of earth joys, so...

October 20, 2020

On the Dry Ground

Ho! every one that is thirsty in spirit, Ho! every one that is weary and...

October 19, 2020

The Legend of Charlie Arms and Being Ready if We Can

Every day the College and the School begin with seven pulls on the rope of...

October 18, 2020

Saving Our Rational Souls: On Reading Plato (A Short How To Because You Should Do)

Reading Plato There must be somebody who loves Plato the first time they read him,...

October 17, 2020

Thanks Papaw

Once, a fairly longtime ago, I was walking with Papaw Earl. He was telling me...

October 16, 2020

Knowing When You Already Know: the education of Holy Wisdom

Is there value to discussion when you already hold to the truth?* The classical model...

October 15, 2020

Our Hypothetical is not Our Reality (Republic)

Games are brilliant. Every year at Christmastide I try to play through some adventure that...

October 14, 2020

Inexorably Beautiful – the Cat Lucy

My brother's cat Lucy is elegance questing for loveliness. She has an unerring instinct for...

October 13, 2020

Beauty stirs Love and Then. . . (With a Sidelight on the Symposium and Diotima)

Beauty is all around us. Having said that truth, what next? The cosmos is beautiful,...

October 12, 2020

The Interruptions ( With a Bonus Thought on Plato’s Republic)

I would be hard at work on some important email or working on the media...

October 11, 2020

Our seeming error? Your fault.

Opposing the murderous Soviet Union was not what the cool kids did back when I...

October 10, 2020

Not a Miracle, but an Accidental Beauty

If you take enough pictures, sometimes one will turn out well. When you had to...

October 09, 2020

Lies, Lies, Damnable Lies

Walter Duranty used his Pulitzer and his education to lie for Stalin. If you disliked...

October 08, 2020

The Lies They Tell Us: our “Betters” and the Stories We Believe (Walter Duranty)

If you were told that smart Americans got their news in the New York Times...

October 07, 2020

Beware the Dilettante: How Luxury Can Keep Us From Wisdom (Phaedrus)

Luxury is fun on a holiday, but can be deadly in a lifetime, keeping us...