The Just Third Way

    “You can never be too rich or too thin” (or something like that) said, uh, somebody or other . . . maybe — it’s attributed to a b...

This week’s podcast continues the series on contemporary logic.   Yet again, this podcast is for informational purposes since we have no int...

Again, this week’s news items illustrate what we think is a growing divide between reality and what the powers-that-be would like to be the ...

It is a pillar of Aristotelian-Thomist philosophy that the natural law — knowledge of right and wrong constituting the general code of human...

  Today, we continue the series on contemporary logic.   Again, this podcast is for informational purposes since we have no intention of eve...

Housing costs and debt seem to be at the top of the list of concerns for many people this week.   We see that reflected in the warnings abou...

 After spending most of the first part of this week bemoaning the effect of AI on readin’ and ritin’ after viewing several videos on the sub...

Today, we get into logic.   Today’s podcast is for informational purposes since we have no intention of ever abandoning Aristotle, but there...

 Welcome to the first “News from the Network” for 2026.   Unfortunately, that’s all that’s new.   The rest — as you can see — sounds depress...

Ask anybody.   Go ahead.   We dare you.   For best results, carry a microphone and have somebody pointing a videocam at you and whoever (or ...

Today, we get back to continental philosophy and present Part 3 of Professor Dave’s talk on it.   As Professor Dave says, “We've learned...

 For the 2025 Year-End News Roundup we decided to try something different and just take what seemed to be the most significant story from ea...

 It’s not the main point of the article, but it’s worth looking at, anyway.   But first, a few words on what the article, “ White House econ...

  Today, we present Part 3 of Professor Dave’s talk on Contemporary Ethics . . . which, if you’ve been following all of this, helps explain ...

 Unfortunately, to paraphrase a trivial Christmas song, “Jest afore Christmas we’re as pessimistic as kin be.”   The surreal nature of the n...

 It’s a bit of cultural trivia from Robert Heinlein’s 1961 science fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land (it’s a Biblical reference), a...

  Today, we present Part 2 of Professor Dave’s talk on Contemporary Ethics.   As Professor Dave says, “Continuing with our discussion of met...

 Yet again this week the news items are more of the same only more so.   And yet again, the usual solution is to adopt the Economic Democrac...

Guy C. Stevenson, Guest Blogger It is being touted as a groundbreaking achievement . . . it is, however, neither groundbreaking nor really m...

  Today, we present Part 1 of Professor Dave’s talk on Contemporary Ethics, “The Birth of Metaethics.”   As Professor Dave says, “Until the ...

 It’s astonishing how each week’s news items resemble those of the previous week . . . Not.   The simple fact is that this is going to keep ...

 Last week we took a look at a book with a hook in a nook with a cook.   That in itself is not unusual, even without a visit from Dr. Suess....

Today, wondering what happened to Part 2 of Professor Dave’s talk on Epistemology, we present his talk on “More on Language and Meaning in A...

 Although “May you live in interesting times” is probably not an ancient Chinese curse (although it should be), events this week are both in...