Author: Thomas Fleming

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20 Jul, 2022

An Apology from the Editor

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The website has been neglected for over ten days.  Initially, the cause was the Summer Seminar, which went beautifully–more on that in a day or two.  The past five days, another round of COVID, this one comparatively mild, has taken me out of the picture.  Today, I am no longer content to lie on the sofa, coughing and groaning as I listen to a reading of The Day of the Jackal, but I am actually doing proof-reading and and attending to business that is not too taxing to my befuddled brain.

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8 Jul, 2022

Abortion and the Laws of Nature

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The obligation to care for one’s offspring is a human universal, like the incest taboo or the prohibition of murder.  Human and primate mothers, as a rule, devote themselves to their children, and mother-love is regarded conventionally as the most selfless and irrational forms of human attachment.

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22 Jun, 2022

The Great Revolution: III: Equality, Part C: Epicurus and The Cancer of Natural Equality

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In addition to his legacy of materialism, hedonism, and the myth of the social contract, Epicurus also bequeathed a cynical attitude toward truth.  While Aristotle and his students studied nature to find out how natural processes work, Epicurus and his disciples were only interested in attaining a serenity that was only possible in a godless universe.