The Good is not being, but beyond being, surpassing it in dignity and power. — Plato According to CBS News, the Department of Homeland Security has had its eye on Faisal Shahzad since 1999. That’s pretty impressive for a Department that didn’t exist until 2002. Wow, so government agencies can do their jobs just as [...]
You’d think that if someone were going to make a whole movie about piranhas, they’d at least bother to find out how to pronounce the name of the damn fish.
Two things conservatives like to say: Our constitutional rights aren’t granted to us by government. Our rights come from God, and the Constitution simply recognises them. Illegal immigrants and terrorist suspects don’t have constitutional rights because they’re not American citizens.
I sent the following letter to the Opelika-Auburn News on April 4th; it wasn’t published: To the editor: Page C1 of the April 4th paper features a picture of two animals with the caption “Spring brings a new generation of emus to a farm on Society Hill Road.” Perhaps it does, but emus are ostrich-like [...]
Mary Matalin on CNN’s Campbell Brown show just now, on the subject of marijuana: My libertarian sense says let’s regulate it.
The following letter appeared in today’s Opelika-Auburn News: To the editor: Today’s article on Homo floresiensis was given a very misleading headline, saying that the find “challenges the theory of evolution.” Such a claim is quite false, and is not supported by anything in the body of the article. The article does say that the [...]
That’s how fast Amazon moves its merchandise. At least if you believe what Amazon tells me here.
It takes the perspicacity of a Glenn Beck to detect them.
So the media outlets all seem to be saying that Amy Bishop shot six of her colleagues before her gun “jammed,” whereupon she was “pushed out of the room.” We haven’t heard what model gun she was using, but don’t most handguns have just six shots? If so, why not assume her gun ran out [...]
The late Michael Kreca’s article “The Needless US Pacific War with Japan,” posted on LRC today, begins like this: “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet…” – Rudyard Kipling When Kipling penned those immortal words during the height of Pax Britannia in the 19th century, he believed East and [...]
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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