Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Misanthropy

  • Remembering Lenny Skutnick

    Last night's  mid-air collision over the Potomac reminded me of January 1982 and the heroism of Lenny Skutnick: On a bitterly cold and snowy day in January 1982, Air Florida flight 90 took off from Washington D.C. heading to Tampa, Florida. Immediately after takeoff the plane began experiencing problems from the ice that had formed…

  • Earth Day 2024

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  • The Paradox of the Misanthropic Naturalist Animal Lover

    In the Judeo-Christian tradition, man and man alone among living things has a higher origin and a higher destiny. Made in the image and likeness of God, and the only creature so made, he comes from God and is called to return to God for his ultimate felicity and fulfillment. He is, to be sure,…