The Joy of Curmudgeonry

Operation Odyssey Dawn: beginning in the middle of things; or the start of a ten-year quest,  with the god of seas and earthquakes against i...

It is a shame that the “international community” is too scattered and shadowy a thing to fall to quick and easy air-strikes.

“We cannot make the world sufficient, we can only kill the perception that the world is insufficient.”  Bruce G. Charlton, “ Suffering in t...

Religion is the rule-governed search for that which one lacks. Reason, therefore, stands as the religion of the moderns.

A feeling of moral superiority is much too great a pleasure for the morally wretched to forbear. What is this — a cynical word against moral...

Her Majesty’s Government’s Chief Zombifier of Science, otherwise known as its Chief Scientific Adviser, speaks before a troop of “scientific...

The more primitive, the more real — this is the principle of a reductionistic metaphysics which informs everything from art to science. Perh...

Logical positivism was more scorn than logical commitment. That might explain its lingering appeal despite its self-refutation.

Whenever men of the West gather to ask why it has fallen, one is sure to get another glimpse of the answer.

It is no easy task to become virtuous, which is why in our age it is regarded as a vicious burden.

It is a happy thing for the utilitarians that immeasurable harm cannot be reckoned by the felicific calculus.

Naturally it is not only into Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other far-off lands that the United States stretches its sinister arm. Here is an exa...

It has been said that disgust arises in man from the consciousness of those things which remind him of his beasthood. That must explain my v...

“[G]o back far enough in history and no group outside Olduvai, in eastern Africa, can lay claim to being truly ‘native’.” [1]  How long wil...

“All manly peoples today have a bad name; the Prussians are the prototype. In the interregnum, however, it is not mothers but hermaphrodites...

“We have fought wars, indulged in regicide and had a glorious revolution in order to rid us of the religio-political tyranny of divine right...