The Joy of Curmudgeonry

How sickly and typically modern it would be if, upon all of us having conformed to the same view, we were to congratulate ourselves on the r...

As a prescription against Emerson’s admirably idealistic notion that all human beings should be regarded as divine, I suggest you take a bri...

It is in turns both amusing and distressing to observe members of an audience concede with an almost unanimous quiescence as some politician...

Of the misfortunes that he feels must come, Man prefers a certain regularity to an uncertain frequency and magnitude. Nothing shows this mor...

A man may believe that no one should be ridiculed for those things over which he has no control – the colour of his skin, the formation of h...

“However mean men may be, they dare not appear as enemies of virtue; and when they want to persecute it, they feign to believe that it is fa...

That charity must be made into entertainment, demonstrates just how deeply people care for entertainment.

Revolution has always had some ostensible end by which its means have been thought justified; and yet, whilst there has never been a revolut...

On the democratic concern that Latin is elitist, one chap finds decrying proof that Tacitus was not of the people: I don’t recall any argume...

I have never heard a satisfactory answer to the question of what is wrong with exclusiveness per se , and yet it is a common enough — one mi...

Alas and alack, the auspices are not good, for the New Year has brought us the International Journal of Žižek Studies . It is but another s...

“X has no place in a democracy” — the instances of x grow by the day.

There are no barbarians quite like those who consider themselves to be on the highroad to enlightenment.

“In discourse these days, whether about politics, religion, philosophy, or any of the other topics that seem so effectively to get everybody...

Mr Thomas Fuller has suggested that I give up reading The Guardian for the sake of my sanity and general wellbeing; but then I should have ...

Simone Clarke, a ballerina with the English National Opera , makes no public statement of her support for the British National Party until ...