Thinking Out Aloud

This extends a comment I made here At the height of the US housing boom, there was a strong (very strong 0.8) correlation between housing af...

I once asked a friendly wizard (a disciple of the Archwizard ) to summarise the difference between Buddhism and Taoism . He responded with t...

I will preface my comments by noting that all the environmentalists in the world have not done nearly as much damage over the last few years...

When Donald Horne wrote The Lucky Country , the title was an ironic indictment of mediocrity. And one can point to fortunate things about th...

A rhetorical ploy that I have found disturbing and disgusting whenever I have come across it are attempts to use Nazi analogies against Isra...

Australia just had a federal election. As PM Julia Gillard said in her speech on the night, quoting Bill Clinton, the people have spoken, i...

This is the third part of my review of Christopher I. Beckwith ’s Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age...