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August 2017

August 22, 2017

Why You Need Bacon from Acorns

When it comes to recovering the household economy I feel like a voice in the...

June 2017

June 26, 2017

We are not social atoms. Churches must stop pretending we are.

You could say that the modern world reduced things to atoms, and when it came...

June 09, 2017

Aristotle’s Robots, and More!

My convictions about our robot future have vacillated, from fear of robots enervating humanity even...

June 02, 2017

Against the Recreational Household: Part 5, Bringing Productive Property Back Home

Here I am again with yet another ramble. This is the fifth and final one...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Against the Recreational Household, Part 4: Signs of Hope

Here I am again with another ramble. This is the fourth in what I hope...

May 22, 2017

Against the Recreational Household: Part 2, Cult as Cultivation

Throughout the world, in both the East and the West, households were once religious institutions....

May 18, 2017

Against the Recreational Household, preliminary thoughts, Part 1

Once upon a time the economy lived at home. Households were for work and the...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Liberalism & the Curse of Debt-Free Living

Liberalism is only honest when men spontaneously generate. Any other way of coming into being...

April 11, 2017

The Way of Men: Nietzsche or Aristotle?

When I was in graduate school (Harvard Divinity School) one of my professors put the...

January 2017

January 10, 2017

Why I Don’t Hit Girls

I have a little sister, and like many children who grow frustrated with tagalong siblings,...

November 2016

November 12, 2016

Jack, the Giant, and the Indigestible Bean

A modern fable about love and work. by C. R. Wiley There were giants in...

July 2016

July 07, 2016

Just What IS Science Good For Anyway?

Last week I created a little dust up with this provocative post. I knew what...

May 2016

May 04, 2016

Why Gender-Egalitarians Hate Natural Household Political Economy

When the choices you're given don't answer your question you know the people giving you...

March 2016

March 14, 2016

Diana Moon Glampers, Sociobiology, and Aristotle

This weekend the Wall Street Journal confirmed what we pretty much know intuitively, stronger-looking men...

March 11, 2016

The Main Chance and the Mystery of Manliness

If you follow this blog you know that I believe that productive property is the...

February 2016

February 24, 2016

Vsauce2 Libels the Dead–and Why It Matters

Have you ever found yourself enjoying a book and then stumbled over something so spectacularly...

December 2015

December 21, 2015

I’m Happy. Should I Feel Guilty About That?

I share good news with family and friends less often than I used to. I've lost...