The Joy of Curmudgeonry

A social-scientific study, in which participants viewed photographs of persons over the age of seventy in order to assess visual signs of ag...

“So far as there still survives anything of value from the Western tradition of humanistic studies, it is in spite of most of the people in ...

It is a great pity that J.B.S. Haldane, evolutionary biologist, co-founder of population genetics, and rather clever chap, was addled somewh...

Perhaps the efficiency of a process advances to such a stage at which it must decline on account of all the time it frees for bored fools to...

Relativism is the compliment that desperation pays to failing ideas.

If it is said that a genius typically read only the last chapters of books, one may take this as another — albeit small — sign of the impetu...

Competitive moralism, of which we see too much, is driven by something amoral and animalistic: it is the age-old struggle for supremacy, the...

Mental vagueness and ellipsis can help a man to continue to believe in a principle that makes him believe he is tolerant. For example, a man...

If the development of technology in society shields us from some of the genetically deleterious effects of our behaviour, and weakens the in...

Chatter turns once again to the question of lowering the age at which a citizen is entitled to vote. Apparently it has come to the notice of...

Back in a week or so.

Anyone stuck for something to do this weekend might consider attending a meeting of The Stalin Society . It will take place in Birmingham on...

Originality has in many ways become “the intellectual pest of our time” [1] . The paramount desire for originality means that truth is of se...

“We set out to prove that computer crime with its high technology is not entirely a new type of crime that needs a new Islamic theory and th...

“Be very severe if any of your own party steal trifles from natives: order double or treble retribution, if the man does not know better; an...

“Gordon Brown’s assertion that the latest terrorists are ‘evil’ recalls George Bush’s notorious axis. . . . If he truly desires change, fres...