The Joy of Curmudgeonry

With mass education, one must expect that fools will no longer be satisfied with simple truths, and will most likely become fodder for the s...

Many fools believe the surest way to appear clever is by declaring dissatisfaction with compelling explanations, as if they see deeper, and ...

The ideologue prefers ideas to facts – and so might every man, yet not every man is so luxuriant in his dealings with the world nor so indul...

Feminist scholarship may yet secure its greatest contribution to human knowledge in attempting to prove that the man in the moon is in fact ...

Whining brats sometimes complain that they never asked to be born, and though this complaint might lack grace, it resounds with truth. That ...

When many people, citing rational thought as their guide, come to the same non-sequitous conclusion, then one ought to consider that there i...

If it were true that “[t]he belief in truth is part of the elementary forms of religious life . . . [and] is a weakness of understanding, of...

I shall be away until Wednesday.

To read and find ugly a sentence such as “Personalised embodied narratives foreground the particularity of the everyday” requires no rare se...

The meaning of the word “potato” has hitherto remained largely unperverted, mostly because there has been little advantage in claiming “pota...

It is a curiosity of almost fathomless wonder that a pseudo-philosopher who professes the ultimate senselessness of words should be able to ...

An oft-used and potent defence for a downright stupid idea is the evoking of the name of the celebrated thinker who first advocated it.

Whenever the will of the people is expressed in a way that is displeasing to our political elite, it is described as a threat to democracy, ...

A humanist is a creature akin to a human, of whom it makes an object of superstitious worship, but for whom it has little sympathy.

If you wish to fathom the ills of modern society, a good place to start is sociology; and once you have learnt from this mistake, you can be...

Against what is usually said, it is not the Muslim but the Christian who must adapt to the reality of the Western order, in one way at least...