Thinking Out Aloud

This extends a comment I made here . Burqa 's de-humanize. And they selectively de-humanize. That is what causes the discomfort they ge...

This extends a comment I made here . Catholic philosopher Edward Feser’s claims about treating God as masculine make far too strong a set of...

My talk on the Dark Ages went well, with some good questions. The most striking question was: Do you think the Romans were rather statist a...

This is extends a comment I made here . If corruption is the market for official discretion, then one would expect that—other things being e...

In 1945, former P.o.W. R. A. Radford published a classic article on the use of cigarettes as money in prisoner of war camps. The piece demo...

This extends a comment I made here . If you want to see the effects of restrictive zoning of landing, compare the UK with Germany. Under the...

This extends a comment I made here . If one is familiar with the history of marriage, contemporary debates over marriage can be a bit odd. T...

This extends a comment I made here . The comment was made that: The transatlantic slave trade was unique because it made a slave into an ine...

This is based on a comment I made here . Conservatives are typically bad (sometimes very bad) on how existing structures fail for particular...

My talk on Dark Ages critiquing the Pirenne thesis , and modern variations thereon, went well, with about 30 or so people attending and lot...

The New York Times has editorialised on the limits of libertarianism ( via ), in response to comments by Rand Paul on civil rights and ra...

For those readers in Melbourne, on Monday 24th at the Hollywood Palace, Bridge Rd, Richmond, I will giving a talk (starting at 7.30) on Shed...

This extends a comment I made here . Something the world has not lacked over the last x decades, is Western intellectuals denouncing Western...

Kevin Donnelly’s Australia’s Education Revolution is a collection of previously published newspaper articles loosely organised around the t...

This extends a comment I made here . I agree with Geoffrey Blainey , Australia's premier historian: a sense of counterfactual possibilit...

This extends a comment I made here . The process of local cultures invading Christianity has also occurred in Islam. The Sufi traditions we...

A post to put some links: it will get added to over time. John Kilcullen on medieval natural rights . Page of links to a wide range of his ...

A recent report on housing found that : immigration was ''the most significant driver of underlying demand for additional housing st...

Reading Helen Epstein’s essay on Meles Zenawi ’s dictatorial regime in Ethiopia, one is treated to a double dose of what an utter moral dis...