Monthly Archives: June 2010

by George Anastaplo The current examination of the recent McChrystal silliness may be salutary.  It can remind our National Administration that it should stop worrying about winning the next election and should worry instead about winning the last one (that … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo The recent unfortunate Israeli exercise in response to a flotilla protesting its troubling blockade of Gaza can remind us of the provocative rocket attacks routinely launched into Israel from Gaza.  (Such missile attacks, whether or not lethal, … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo (Keynote Remarks, Hickory Humanities Forum – Lenoir-Rhyne UniversityWildacres Retreat – Little Switzerland, North Carolina – May 20, 2010) I. A cello concerto by Dmitry Yanov-Yavosky (who was born in Soviet-controlled Uzbekistan in 1963) was given its world … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo (Hickory Humanities Forum, Lenoir-Rhyre UniversityWildacres Retreat – Little Switzerland, North Carolina – May 20, 2010) My wife regrets that she is not able to join us this year up here at Wildacres.  For a quarter-century now, this … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo (Preliminary Statement, Author Event, Seminary Cooperative Bookstore – May 13, 2010) I have been asked to say something about how I try to work as a scholar.  My book, The Christian Heritage: Problems and Prospects, builds upon … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo (Conference on Niccolo Machiavelli – Basic Program Weekend – The University of Chicago – May 1, 2010) Niccolo Machiavelli is to the great philosophical tradition of the West what theological conjectures like the Gospel of Judas are … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo (Conference on Niccolo Machiavelli – Basic Program Weekend – The University of Chicago – May 1, 2010) I. Niccolo Machiavelli, the Master Realist, recognizes that the political man, in order to be effective, needs ample resources.  These … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo (Jurisprudence Seminar – Loyola School of Law, Chicago, Illinois – April 27, 2010) I. The opening lines of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos are rendered thus (in the Hugh Lloyd-Jones Loeb Classical Library translation): Children, latest to be reared … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo (Constitutional Law Seminar – Loyola School of Law, Chicago, Illinois – April 26, 2010) I. The liveliest discussion in my law school seminars this semester was in response to my Letter to the Editor on April 18, … Continue reading →

by Joel Rich I first met George Anastaplo in the Fall of 1969 at one of the first staff meetings of the then largely reconstituted teaching staff of the University of Chicago’s Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults. On … Continue reading →