The Joy of Curmudgeonry

But I may sometimes write here or there .

The scene is the agora, outside the office of the magistrate. Socrates is on his way to answer charges of impiety. There he meets Thermip...

“Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which you are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being sho...

One sometimes hears the following enthymeme: most of nature does not have borders, therefore, mankind should not have borders . [1] The ent...

Why shouldn’t novels have in them badly-drawn caricatures of real persons? The world is full of them.

On the dusty and featureless plain of his soul, it is easy for the latter-day man to lose all sense of perspective and direction.

In the fostering of culture and the forming of good taste and character, liberal democracy has been so great a failure that it is believed ...

Operation Odyssey Dawn: beginning in the middle of things; or the start of a ten-year quest,  with the god of seas and earthquakes against i...

It is a shame that the “international community” is too scattered and shadowy a thing to fall to quick and easy air-strikes.

“We cannot make the world sufficient, we can only kill the perception that the world is insufficient.”  Bruce G. Charlton, “ Suffering in t...

Religion is the rule-governed search for that which one lacks. Reason, therefore, stands as the religion of the moderns.

A feeling of moral superiority is much too great a pleasure for the morally wretched to forbear. What is this — a cynical word against moral...

Her Majesty’s Government’s Chief Zombifier of Science, otherwise known as its Chief Scientific Adviser, speaks before a troop of “scientific...

The more primitive, the more real — this is the principle of a reductionistic metaphysics which informs everything from art to science. Perh...

Logical positivism was more scorn than logical commitment. That might explain its lingering appeal despite its self-refutation.

Whenever men of the West gather to ask why it has fallen, one is sure to get another glimpse of the answer.