I was talking last week about the young man whom the experience of reading Aristotle’s Ethics had “scared.”  In talking with him, I dropped the ball, and I promised to tell how.

How to Pronounce My Last Name

My surname, Budziszewski, is pronounced Boo-jee-shef-skee.

Bu = Boo

dzi = jee

szew = shef

ski = skee

People make interesting comments:

          It's German, right?

          I know a guy named Buchanan.  Are you related?

          Are you making that up?

          It's Czech, right?

My post this week is a short one.  I’ve been writing about the ways of bringing suppressed moral knowledge back to the surface.  Last time I emphasized that these ways are merely illustrations, not magic tricks to be played on every audience, not use-on-all-occasions conversational stratagems.  Sometimes, I said, the only thing to do is nothing – or what