The Just Third Way

Life in the Clouds . . . of Aristophanes . . . an example of “the New Comedy” . . . of 2,000 years ago:

This week is another episode of “Non Novum Sub Soles.”   All the experts are busily trying to figure out ways the Keynesian system is really...

Occasionally, we feel the urge to explain a little about social justice.   This is usually prompted by a comment or question from a faithful...

Why did Socrates refuse to escape and stay, knowing he would be sentenced to death?

This week the experts are trying to scare people by raising the specter of inflation versus recession . . . forgetting (or ignoring) the fac...

Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism , which you can get free from the CESJ website , or from Amazon or ...

Is there a difference between apologizing and apologetics?   Specifically, in Plato’s Apologia, why didn’t Socrates apologize for anything ....

Again, this week in the news items we have more of the same, only more so.   We know we sound like a broken record (obscure cultural allusio...

Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism , which you can get free from the CESJ website , or from Amazon or ...

What is the meaning and purpose of life?   To get more stuff?   Or to become more fully human, that is, virtuous?

The big news this week is that the Federal Reserve decided not to raise interest rates.   Yay.   Now if they would decide to take effective ...

Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism , which you can get free from the CESJ website , or from Amazon or ...

Today we continue the discussion on Herodotus, Episode Thirty-Five of “the Great Conversation” on the Great Books Program:

Again this week we have more of the same only more so.   All the experts continue to flounder about what to do about the economy.   We could...

Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism , which you can get free from the CESJ website , or from Amazon or ...

For our podcast today we jump to Episode Thirty-Four of “the Great Conversation” on the Great Books Program, which gets back to the Great Bo...

It’s strange, isn’t it, that all the powers-that-be all start with the same assumptions and keep coming to radically different solutions to ...

Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism , which you can get free from the CESJ website , or from Amazon or ...

Our podcast today is Episode Fifteen of “the Great Conversation” on the Great Books Program.   Today’s topic is more of a general pep talk a...

One of the things that becomes obvious is that the desire of the gamblers and speculators for low interest rates is so great that they are c...

Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism , which you can get free from the CESJ website , or from Amazon or ...

Our podcast today is Episode Fourteen of “the Great Conversation” on the Great Books Program.   Today’s topic is about building a good relat...

The stock market is again plunging, which is sending a panic through the swarm of gamblers and speculators who think they are investing.   W...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, “the Dow,” plunged yesterday, causing the usual panic among the gamblers and speculators who think investm...