Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Blogging

  • Philosophia Perennis

    Thanks to Philip Blosser the Pertinacious Papist for reposting one of my old entries.  (Amazing what one finds while on ego surfari!)  And here are some reminiscences of Dietrich von Hildebrand by an undergraduate teacher of mine.  There are plenty of other interesting posts on this site.

  • Matt and Madeleine Flannagan

    M and M.  These two have been good to me over the years.  They credit me with inspiring them to enter the blogosphere.

  • Thank You Zoe Pollock of The Daily Dish

    When I logged on yesterday, I was surprised to see that my readership was way up: by the end of the day I had logged 2,698 page views for the day.  That's about double what I was getting the few days preceding.  Here is the link from Zoe Pollock.  Hell, if I knew she was…

  • Taking a Few Days Off

    I should be back to blog on Thursday.  I'll leave you this hot August evening with this '40s rendition of "Don't Get Around Much Any More" by Lina Romay.  Did I hear her sing, " Couldn't BARE IT without you; don't get around much any more"?

  • We Philosophize Best With Friends

    Aristotle says that somewhere, but I forgot where.  In any case, it is true as I verified once again yesterday in Tempe, where I met up with Steven Nemes, Mike Valle, Peter Lupu and his student Scott.  Before joining them I stopped at the library where I borrowed Thomas McKay's Plural Predication and Douglas Hyde's I Believed. …

  • Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

    Ah, the webbiness of the Web!  I used an aphorism of Nicolás Gómez Dávila three days ago for purposes of logical analysis and received a comment from one 'Stephen' who is the proprietor of an interesting site devoted to translations of Don Colacho's aphorisms.  The blog is appropriately entitled Don Colacho's Aphorisms.  Please do check…

  • John Pepple on the Need for a Cultural Revolution

    I drew your attention to John Pepple's weblog, I Want a New Left, a few days ago.  Pepple identifies himself as a leftist, but what's in a label?  If he were characteristic of leftists, which he isn't, I would  have little or no problem with them.  I find myself wholly in agreement with his post, We…

  • The Trouble With Larry

    I share Steve Burton's misgivings about the work of Lawrence Auster.  We need a broad coalition to defeat leftists and Islamists.  A certain amount of intramural squabbling  is to be expected and may even be healthy, but not if it ramps up to internecine warfare.

  • John Pepples Wants a New Left

    During our lazy float down the Rio Salado today, Mike Valle and I had a lot to talk about. He mentioned a new blog he had come across entitled I Want a New Left. The author, John Pepples, aims to develop a self-critical leftism.  Now, having read quickly through most of his posts, I am…

  • The ‘Stickiness’ Metric

    'Stickiness' is a measure of the average length of time a reader remains at a website.  Personally, I am more impressed by the 'stickiness' of a site than its raw traffic (measured in unique visitors and page views).  Here at TaxProf Blog is  a ranking of the 'stickiest' law prof blogs.  (Via Legal Insurrection.) Ladder Man…

  • I Finally Get My BlogRoll Rolling

    I am lazy, a man of leisure, a slacker before slackers were so-called, but not particularly arrogant.  So don't take it as arrogance that I have until just recently expanded the blogroll of this, the third major incarnation of Maverick Philosopher, beyond one entry.  Well, maybe some arrogance is involved in consequence of an upsurge in…

  • Varieties of Cyber-Linkage

    The symmetrical linker links to every site that links to him. The asymmetrical linker links to no site that links to him. The nonsymmetrical linker may or may not link to a site that links to him. The totally reflexive linker links to all and only those sites that are identical to his site. The…

  • Maverick Philosopher 6th Blogiversary

    Some say that blogging is dead.  Read or unread, whether by sages or fools, I shall blog on.  A post beats a twit tweet any day, and no day without a post.  Nulla dies sine linea.   It is too early to say of blogging what Etienne Gilson said of philosophy, namely, that it always buries its undertakers,…

  • Welcome to Maverick Philosopher

    Online since May 2004. I publish both here and at Substack. I began posting at Substack in early 2021 under the rubric "Philosophy in Progress." The Substack entries are intended to assist educated non-philosophers in clarifying their thinking about matters of moment.  My PhilPeople page links to my Substack articles and my weblog Maverick Philosopher:…

  • New Search Engine: Duck Duck Go

    While on 'ego surfari' I came upon this page.  What a wonderful time to be alive, despite the general horrors of existence, not to mention those particular to our time and place and individual circumstances.  See the Whole from many sides.  There is much more to it than your foreshortened persepctives allow.  Don't obsess over…