The shelf behind the method.

An ongoing, heavily annotated retranslation of the Aristotelian corpus under C.D.C. Reeve, intended to cover the whole of Aristotle.

Virtue, character, and practical reason — phronesis, the judgement this work is named for, lives here.

A systematic treatise on persuasion: the modes of proof, audience emotion, character, and style.

The foundational work on nature, change, motion, place, time, and the four causes.

A private Stoic notebook of exercises on governing one’s own judgements, accepting fate, and distinguishing what is within one’s control.

Stoic teaching recorded by Arrian: flourishing depends on separating what is in our power from what is not, and treating externals as indifferents.

124 letters of Stoic guidance on virtue, death, friendship, and the conduct of a good life.

The ideal orator as a broadly educated statesman who must master philosophy, law, and history — not mere rhetorical technique.

Moral duty weighed against the expedient, drawing on Stoic ethics; framed as advice to his son.

The classic treatise on strategy, tactics, deception, and statecraft for waging — and avoiding — war.

The psychological drives behind behaviour, and how to read and manage people — and oneself.

Principles from military history adapted into 33 strategies for everyday conflict and competition.

48 rules of power drawn from history, presented amorally as the observable mechanics of influence.

Mastery as the product of apprenticeship, mentorship, and deliberate practice, illustrated through historical masters.

Traces a single behaviour backward across timescales — from the neuron a second before to hormones, development, and evolutionary history.

Argues human behaviour is fully caused by prior genetic, developmental, and environmental factors — with implications for justice and blame.

Empathy — feeling what others feel — is a biased guide for moral decisions, and should be replaced by rational compassion.

A polemic that what the author calls “idea pathogens” are spreading through institutions and undermining rational discourse.

Argues that empathy, when miscalibrated and applied without limit, produces self-destructive moral and policy outcomes.

Lectures on parrhesia — frank, risky truth-telling — and its evolution from ancient politics and ethics.

His final lecture course: Cynic truth-telling as an ethics that binds courage, conviction, and one’s mode of life.

Belief systems and myths as the cognitive structures by which people map the known against the unknown to derive meaning.

Twelve practical-ethical rules, from psychology and myth, for confronting chaos and living more responsibly.

A lecture series reading stories from Genesis as narratives about human motivation, morality, and the construction of meaning.

Greek hoplite battle as a brief, decisive infantry collision — treated as the root of a distinctively Western style of war.

Nine battles argue that Western military dominance stems from civic participation, dissent, and free inquiry rather than race or geography.

The Peloponnesian War told thematically by mode of fighting — siege, plague, naval, hoplite — drawing on Thucydides.

Argues the American idea of citizenship is eroding under economic dependency, identity politics, and an expanding administrative state.

A free-speech-oriented interview show on politics, economics, and culture, hosted by two comedians.