Thinking Out Aloud

On Wednesday evening, I was in the Melbourne CBD, coming from a regular (second Wednesday of the month) dinner-and-talk meeting. The talk ...

Much of the appeal of Marxism is that it allows one to sneer at entire categories of people-- petty bourgeois, lumpenproletariat, bourgeois...

Reading about  inadvertent patterns  created by Islam brings to mind how adaptability is an advantage in a civilisation. While it is true ...

A strain of thought I have noticed over the years with reference to international relations is "the world has changed" line: tha...

The crisis in the Crimea has folk reaching for their historical analogies. Taking the most directly resonant one, the original  Crimean W...

Erick Erickscon tries to put the right to outcast in its narrowest possible construction in order to be as reasonable as possible : The...

Modern societies are not made of sturdy yeoman farmers, able to provide most things for ourselves. We live in highly interdependent societi...