Thinking Out Aloud

Ruthie O. Grant Ph.d. aka Amorah is a psychologist who lives in Los Angeles, a single mother divorced from a husband she labels as a toxic p...

A former writer of anti-gay commentary for the American Family Association publicly repents : a member of the growing list of ex-anti-gays d...

The intersection between European-cum-Western civilisation and Asian influences is hard to escape when one lives in a country where the cuis...

One of the features of modern life is the range of moral gestures—in conversation, in purchasing and so forth—that express moral virtue, a s...

Sandy Hotchkiss’s Why Is It Always About You?: The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism is a clear, well-set out, very readable examination of t...

Recently, went to a talk on Sudan by an Australian woman who has visited the country three times in the last few years. She likes—often admi...

Hayek’s classic essay The Use of Knowledge in Society (which in part led to his Nobel prize ) has become a basic building block of the thou...

Psychotherapist Alan Rapport has a website with some useful articles about psychotherapy. (All of which, and so the links to them, are pdf ...

Frances Gies’s The Knight in History , a highly readable work which conveys recent scholarship very easily. The book is built around intersp...

Eric Hoffer was a longshoreman (waterside worker in Australian parlance) who became a successful writer. The True Believer: Thoughts on the...

I have previously reviewed the first volume of Mark Lopez’s The Little Black Schoolbook . (Declaration of interest: Mark is a friend of min...