The Joy of Curmudgeonry

When a man proceeds rationally from his values, he must always guard against a fallacy that often arises therewith: that those values are ma...

It is yet to be seen whether civilisation can defend itself against a horde of morons armed with degrees in political science.

When a man stands against the spirit of the age, it is often said that he is a fool who has misunderstood it; and this very well highlights ...

In the movement of the Golden Age from the past to the future, the carrot has been dangled before Man, and just so that he does not dally, i...

Who wouldn’t be virtuous if it were effortless and ever profitable?

It should not pass our notice that almost all of our so-called iconoclasts are not so bold as to smash the idols of this age, in whose prese...

Nowhere in Sir Robert Peel’s nine principles for the effective and ethical conduct of the police does it state that the police should try to...

For many years, the pragmatist-philosopher Richard Rorty has been telling us that the world outside the mind — or outside a community of min...

There is a thumb-rule which states that any journal of philosophy that publishes contributions from graduates or lecturers in Film Studies o...

Many have given us their conceptions of Hell for which they have envisaged less the foulest tortures than the eternal submission to annoyanc...

There are two senses in which a thing may be said to be anachronistic: firstly, in the historiographic sense, in which a thing is not set in...

When old Friedrich opined that the “State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters” [1], he was reacting, we may presume, against the...

From what we see around us, we may deduce that the fear of seeming stuffy surpasses that of appearing boorish.

To my regret, I am not a man of leisure and independent means who sits all day in his dressing-gown in the morning-room of his country retre...

Perhaps the depth of our downfall should be measured by the number of sociological schemes for our salvation.

In some circumstances, it takes a great effort to tell the difference between a clever man doing us wrong and an idiot doing his best.