I am enjoying studying and teaching the Art of Rhetoric this quarter. Even when we disagree with the great authors and speakers of the past, we learn much from them if we read with care.

“I have $5000 that I do not need. I will donate ___% of it to an educational institution that brings real learning—arts of language and reasoning, philosophy, classical languages—outside the university.”

There more or less isn’t anything you cannot accomplish when this is your playlist.

Bernie, dear sweet Bernie—perhaps dwindling into senility? time to hang it up?—you are a politician, applying political pressure to a private American company. So... C'mon, pal, take a breath. Or you could pretend AOC snagged your phone.

Who was John of St. Thomas [Joannes a Sancto Thoma, or João Poinsot] and why should we read him?

In our first discussion of this seminar, we ask: what is the “place” of dialectic in the arts and sciences of human reasoning? To what end does Aristotle order its practice? What terms or concepts of that practice do we need to recover? A fascinating conversation awaits us!

Today we commence discussions in the second seminar of the Humanitas Technica project—and to focus that conversation, we will ask: what does it mean for techne to be rooted in poiesis? How can this sense of being “rooted” redeem technology? What can we learn about this from

Who was Charles Sanders Peirce, and why should we read him? Though he never completed any book-length works, Peirce’s thought may prove among the most important in history.

I find it very strange how many far-leftists have dependent parasocial online relationships to Trump Inc.

Angels. Demons. Reality outside the world of motion. lyceum.institute/news-and-annou…

Seems pretty straightforward, doesn't it?

There must be a way out of the confusion. Don’t you think?

Y’know what? “Emotional labor” is a really, really, really stupid term and I immediately think much less of anyone who uses it.

The Fetishist The Catboy The Trollop The Goblin Worst RPG party ever.

There are too many made-up “special” days. I will not celebrate National Ice Cream Day. I will not celebrate National Taxidermists’ Day. And though I am glad to receive any donations to the Lyceum 10/9—or any day— I will not be celebrating “Donor Advised Fund Day”.

Knowledge is action. (We need distinctions between immanent and transitive or the objects signified by the words “knowledge” and “action” will be even-more-confused.)

If you were to join the LYCEUM INSTITUTE and take our courses in the TRIVIUM you’d understand why this Twitter presentation of Charlie’s approach to debates is very SUPERFICIAL and misses the points that REALLY MATTER that is, the points obscured by the capitalized words.

What happens if everyone writes a book about how we have too many things? ...

“expected to drop” – this is the most painful part, to me, of this announcement. It’s not an EP, dammit.