Rethink.

What puzzled me yesterday: It’s really strange at a university where we have a bunch of English majors who will devote a whole semester to the canon of one poet, a bunch of amateur musicians, we have a lot of people reading these difficult philosophical texts, and yet we’re not more artsy. – from an …

Re: my day job. Waiting for people to get back to me. Probably going to take longer than I’d like. Am about to go do some more reading and writing. Re: here. Hey, I’m nearing 500,000 visitors for the life of this site. I’m at 495,000 right now. Can I get 5,000 more visitors before …

My thanks for your readership and all the attention you help get for this blog. In case you missed something, here’s most of what was covered the last few months. Also: Rethink has a facebook fan page that can always use support and there’s an interview with me that turned out really well. Poems: Jane …

The last time I marked a traffic milestone was May, when Rethink hit 400,000. I loved writing that post and thanking all of you: the community that’s formed around this blog is just incredible. Well, it’s been a little over three months and there have been 50,000 more visitors since then. It’s not 10,000 a …

I’ve done what I can do for now, and it is good. Taking a break until I have another assignment. There is a feeling of accomplishment on my part. For all the problems with my academic writing, I definitely bring something to it where serious questions always get raised. Campaigning and reading Plato’s Laws over …

fan page (please like!) | Exclusive Interview: Ashok Karra I’m sure Google has made a fine product with Google +1 that measures up to the Facebook “Like.” It probably would be worthwhile to install the buttons, get my Google profile set up correctly, start promoting with a new network. I certainly am not opposed to …

Some of you have noticed that right under the title of individual entries is a very small “Readability” link. It takes you to the entry with larger font and a distraction-free setting. Safari users have this option for nearly any site: there’s an “Enter Reader” option in their “View” menu. (If you’re interested, I use …

Not much to share, but I’m particularly proud of how the remarks on patriotism & the comment on Xenophon’s Symposium turned out. Christopher Nadon, “Leo Strauss’s Restatement on Why Xenophon” Thomas Pangle, “Socratic Political Philosophy in Xenophon’s Symposium” On Patriotism W.R. Newell, “Tyranny and the Science of Ruling in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus” Leo Strauss, …