Thinking Out Aloud

Theodore Roosevelt would not have been terribly surprised at how the "Arab Spring" is turning out, particularly in Egypt. (Tunis...

Thomas Sowell uses the term ‘moral mascots’ to refer to groups that progressivist opinion focuses on at any particular time as especially w...

Theologian John Millibank has published on the ABC website an essay against normalising homosexuality . It does so by defining homosexual pe...

This was based on a comment I made here . American political labels are so amusing. 'Liberal' means politically cross-dressing soci...

The creation of Israel created two sets of refugees, one folk constantly talk about and one folk almost never talk about. The one folk const...

( This is an attempt to talk about money somewhat philosophically and avoiding economic jargon while grappling with what monetary policy sho...

By deeming sex is only legitimate if it is procreative, natural law theory imprisons sexuality and erotic love within procreation-as-concep...

This is based on a comment I made here . One of the alleged paradoxes of fiat money is that any given fiat money will, eventually, end. So ...

Of the various centres where urban civilisation developed—the Andean mountains and coasts, Mesoamerica, North-East Asia, South-East Asia, th...

If you had to do everything yourself (feed yourself, clothe yourself, shelter yourself), you would be very much poorer than you are now. Th...

The Governor of the Bank of Canada recently gave a speech on inflation targeting ( via ). It was a sensible enough speech except for one th...

This report on Greece from the Daily Mail describes a country spiralling down into social collapse; one where a book of recipes from warti...