The Joy of Curmudgeonry

Although the end of the world of man does not happen very often, unless I am very much mistaken, we can nonetheless have a good idea of how ...

“For longer than anyone can remember in our pseudoliberal times it has been the accepted rule of our newspaper press to ‘defend our young pe...

“Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to presume to go about unl...

“I cannot here draw the portrait of the progress-minded modern who, in my reckoning, accounts for so much that is wrong in our world, but I ...

“To-day I notice that every political passion is furnished with a whole network of strongly woven doctrines, the sole object of which is to ...

Any failure to take into consideration that the highly intelligent are also capable of great stupidity is not a sign that one is not highly ...

The greatest thing about a state-education is that it gives one the opportunity to spend a lifetime trying to overcome it.

A most subtle test of character is set in the absence of adversity.

James Watson is in trouble again, this time for claiming differences in intellectual capacities between races. “It is sad to see a scientist...

It is trivially true that one cannot give one’s opinions on some matter without the possibility of colouring that matter to some extent with...

When a man acquires much or all of the knowledge that has been revealed in his field of study concerning some aspect of physical reality, or...

Kingsley Amis was “a racist, antisemitic boor, a drink-sodden, self-hating reviler of women, gays and liberals”. [1] It is true he was so ...

If we have eyes to see the ramshackle condition of our own society and culture, wherein an antipathy against authority and hierarchy prevail...

If and insofar as the common man lacks virtue and self-control, and society lacks authorities, moral strictures, taboos and codes of behavio...

It is very odd that progressives — those who believe most strongly in the malleability of mankind and who thereupon push for unprecedented c...

From the easiness or difficulty of a problem, we are accustomed to assume that the thing about which the problem concerns itself must be cor...