The Joy of Curmudgeonry

The whole of society is on the loose again. It left its tracks in a newspaper this morning: If we are to tackle obesity properly, the whole ...

“ Present folly seeks the unity of nations and not the creation of a single man from the entire species, so be it; but in acquiring general ...

“Unfortunately all too often my experience with our elites is that they seem to have simply no more interest in the preservation of Germany....

All good men should join with the liberals and the socialists and the bourgeois hand-wringers of this land in deploring the use of the word ...

Almost everyone is now agreed that education is the best solution to the problem of people having opinions that differ from his own.

It is not so much the man of honour who lacks imagination as the man who cannot imagine why anyone would fight for the sake of it.

It is a happy requital for those who play their part in dispelling the idea of human importance that they have the human propensity to feel ...

“Freedom is a secular state of grace which exists in permanent tension with tyranny and which we can claim for ourselves only if we never, e...

“A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He’ll beat you all at piety.” ..... Samuel Johnson, as quoted by James Boswell, 10th...

“And let it be observed, that in reasoning about hats, all thoughts about that effeminate invention, the umbrella, are to be laid aside. Thi...

Philosophers are troubled from time to time by the question of whether there is progress in their field. Not long ago I was much impressed w...

Given an acceptance of determinism, a concern for the promotion of the good society, and a belief in the usefulness of technology, we might ...

By analogy to the decline of journalism, James Kerian in The Wall Street Journal sums up the decline of science into what he calls yellow s...

“We are . . . obliged to confess that perception and that which depends on it cannot be explained mechanically , that is to say by figures a...

There is nothing romantically tragic about the decline and diminishing of England. Not without laughing could one paint of it a picture of a...

The popular success of liberalism is owed perhaps to its securing the right of every man to be indifferent and shamelessly vulgar — such of ...