At the end of this month, I will be releasing On Duties: A Guide To Conduct, Obligations, And Decision-Making. It is an exhaustively annotated, indexed, and topically referenced translation of Cicero’s famous treatise, along with commentary and supplementary essays.
In May of this year, a bill was introduced in the US Congress called the “Countering Information Warfare Act (CIWA) of 2016.” It is currently pending in the Committee on Foreign Relations. The premise behind the bill is, in essence, that Russia and China are devoting huge sums of money on “propaganda” and “disinformation” which has the net effect of smearing US policies around the world.
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My latest book, Pathways: Best Short Essays Of 2015
You can find a summary of it here.
The book is available both in a Kindle version and as a paperback.
2015 was a good year, and 2016 is shaping up to be even better.
Keep the fires burning, and keep moving forward.
No matter what.
Ast ego curarum vobis arcana mearum
Expromam mentisque meae quo pondera vergant.
“But I will reveal to you my secrets, and the weighty matters that oppress my mind.”
–Lucan, Pharsalia VIII.278.
My fourth book, Pathways, will be released within the next ten to fourteen days. It is a collection of the very best short essays of 2015.
There are 56 essays in all, all of which have been edited, polished, and refurbished, together with an easy-to-locate organizing system.
In early January 2016 I’ll be releasing a new book called Pathways.
It is a collection of my best essays from 2015, and includes more than 50 separate essays.
Many of these have been enlarged, expanded, or edited. These are the definitive versions of my best essays from 2015.
For well over a year now, I’ve been working steadily on the most ambitious literary project of my life. It has been an incredible and exhausting adventure, and has opened up vistas in my perception of the world that I never would have expected.
My third book, Stoic Paradoxes, is now available on Amazon.
It is offered in both Kindle edition and in paperback. Click on the cover image above.
I wanted to use this post to explain what the book is about, and why it is an important addition to the literature on Stoicism.
This fall, I will be releasing a translation of Cicero’s Stoic Paradoxes. The book deals with some of the major questions on life and conduct that every man must confront.
The book came about in response to the many questions I received asking for good introductory texts on Stoicism. I feel that this little book is a very useful preparatory work in the subject.
I have produced a modern and accessible translation of this work. There will also be separate chapters on the life of Cicero, the history of Stoic thought, and a detailed synopsis of the text. These extra materials help frame the work in proper context.
The current batch of presidential candidates leaves me feeling nothing. I don’t feel inspired by any of them. I don’t feel interested in any of them. All I feel is…nothing, a generalized emptiness that edges into contempt.
All of them are complete nothings, nonentities.
You may feel the same way. When it comes to politics, disappointment is now so routine that we simply take it for granted. None of the candidates has anything positive to offer. All they are offering is a continuation of the same tired old policies.
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Stoicism has proven itself to be an enduring and influential philosophy.
It may not have attracted the greatest number of adherents when compared to other schools of philosophy, but the men that it did attract tended to be the best men.
Cicero, whose name is synonymous with eloquence, wrote a great deal on Stoicism.
I will be releasing a new book this coming fall.
I have decided to issue a fresh, new translation of one of Cicero’s lesser known works, a treatise called Stoic Paradoxes.
Quintus Curtius 
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