The Joy of Curmudgeonry

On account of something I wrote a while ago, entitled “ Something Called Education ”, I have come to hostile notice. My criticisms have caus...

There is no doubt that tabloid myths and popular misconceptions do a great deal of damage to this country. Gangs of them hang around not exi...

If being rich is ruining your life, [1] then why not try the obvious solution? To that end, please do not hesitate to contact me, whereupon...

“[T]he goal of spreading democracy should be a great progressive project; the means need to combine both soft and hard power.” David Milliba...

If one were to mark upon a scale the emotional rather than the rational appeal of various philosophies of mind, one would be first inclined ...

Democracy vulgarises to so great an extent that it leaves the vast majority of people impressed with its achievements.

“More and more individuals, owing to their bloodless indolence, will aspire to be nothing at all—in order to become the public.” Søren Kierk...

Helvetica is rightly deemed the typeface that best typifies modernism: it is bland and functional. Of its aesthetic qualities, others say ot...

History is no keen judge: the silliest affairs can become the profoundest events, and the weakest ideas the strongest currents.

It is a cold head that counts upon opportunities to persuade itself and others that it is attached to a warm heart.

Those who beheaded Louis XVI of France for the sake of a democratic republic probably did not consider that so clear a lesson and so direct ...

I’ll never fit in; I have trouble faking outrage.

There is a terrible lot of straw men walking around — so why not attack them?

Some might say we are blessed by political moralism, in that for every matter about which one might feel guilty, there are a thousand uncons...

The madman’s flight from reality is dramatic compared to what is normal: a steady and sane retreat — most cunningly into a narrow study of s...

Audism is “the hearing way of dominating, restructuring, and exercising authority over the deaf community” [1] and is “the most dramatic fo...