Month: February 2020

Updated Collection of Weblog Writings Now Available

I’ve uploaded an update to the collection of my weblog writings: Acts of Being: Selected Weblog Writings From 2006 to 2019. Here is the text from the Preface for this new edition: I’ve added another 12 or so chapters to this Ninth Edition. All but this chapter are reformatted essays from my writings during 2019 … [Read more…]

Love and Stuff, Part 6: Personalities, Minds, Genetics, and Blood-shed in Western History

I am writing this essay shortly after finishing a good book, longish by modern standards, which discusses two personality types in European peoples—especially those of the Northwestern countries. These two types of aristocratic individualist and egalitarian individualist have formed the liberal orders of Europe. That book is Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition by Kevin … [Read more…]