The Just Third Way

What is going on in the Just Third Way and related areas around the world?   Your guess is as good as ours.   We only know what we read in t...

    In the introduction to one of his satiric songs written for the late, great show That Was the Week That Was (“TW3”) performed an...

  This week we conclude our look at people’s favorite way of arguing today: the logical fallacy.     Again, this should be very useful for p...

Each week we wish we could report on something fundamentally different rather than just unimportant details that reflect no genuine improvem...

As we have often noted on this blog, we like it when Faithful Readers send in comments or questions we can answer and use as the raw materia...

This week we take a look at people’s favorite way of arguing virtually anything: the logical fallacy.     This just might be one of the most...

Remember when the slogan was “It’s the economy, stupid.”   Of course, that might be interchangeable with, “It’s the stupid economy,” but the...

    “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...