Freedom and Flourishing

  In countries with endemic law and order and corruption problems, outbreaks of rioting and looting often lead to military dictatorship, or ...

  In my view,  Aristotelians are people who seek guidance from Aristotle's ethics in considering how to live their lives. Please read on...

  I began thinking about this question while reading Michael O’Rourke’s recently published book, Passages to the Northwest, The Europe they ...

  When I am asked who my heroes are, I have often said that I don’t have any these days. If asked why, my response has been that my heroes a...

  Unfortunately, few readers of this blog will know anything about Bill Carmichael or his transparency project. My main purpose here is ther...

  Lachlan Macquarie was governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821. At that time, the colony comprised much of the Australian mainland (k...

  The quoted passage comes near the end of T.S. Eliot’s poem , Little Gidding, which was written in Britain during the Second World War. Eli...

  People who read Vasily Grossman’s book, Life and Fate , are not likely to forget the experience. That is not just because the book takes a...

In one of the most popular articles on my blog I speculated about the meaning of the epitaph on W B Yeats tombstone: “Cast a cold Ey...

Ruins of the forecourt of the temple of Apollo at Delphi where   “Know Thyself” was inscribed. When I started blogging, about ...