Flag pins are like those yellow ribbon things on cars, a membership badge of the unreflective, nationalist wing of the Republican Party. Since we have the Pope in the country let me quote an ardent Catholic writer: "My country right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a …
According to the drivel put out by the media, it is now elitist to drink tea! I declare myself to be irremediably elitist. I drink 6 (six) cups of tea before getting up in the morning. This puts paid to my carefully laid plans to run as President of these United States. Epicurus was not …
"Nobody had properly analysed the root cause of imperialism. but everybody recognised the prime characteristics of the phenomenon: aggression was necessary to its spirit, whether it be aggression for bad or good causes, and when the empire lost its aggressiveness then the excitement of imperialism itself…was lost." "Farewell the Trumpets", by James Morris It is …
Intellectuals. Are there any left? The people who used to be intellectuals are busy dumbing down universities and awarding A’s all round in an effort to boost enrollment. Their colleagues preach de-constructionism and relativism and are proud to have no standards of behaviour, ethics or morals whatsoever. Anything goes and intellectually it seems a lot …
Epicurus taught that true pleasure is gained from intellectual discussion and long-term friendship, that happiness is sitting in the shade in a Summer garden discussing philosophy, and that life is to be lived to the full, but with simplicity and moderation.
