Alex Priou's aphoristic reflections on Plato's Symposium are not "scholarly." Rather, they invite the reader to a humanistic experience.

The quarterback must exhibit judgment, exhort his men to fight, and bring about a kind of unity that is unfamiliar in normal life.

Why do the philosophers so often start their reflections with mortality, instead of natality?

He was a lover of kittens, and a crusader to the core.

With targeted reforms, the Fed could be made more efficient and more democratically accountable.

The common law is not dead, but neither is it getting stronger.

Though he presents himself as an Aristotelian, Jordi Pujols has no interest in recovering ancient liberty.

Statute dominates the elite’s world while common law firmly governs the people’s.

We do not need activist judges to restore the common law; we need judges who are trained and disposed to see that it is still there.

Alexander Hamilton always believed that the providential protection that kept the small Jewish world alive would embrace his own extraordinary nation.