Quote: The modish cause of today’s chattering classes, says Brendan O’Neill, is overpopulation. They thrill to hear how a world of seven billion people is imposing an “unbearable strain on nature’s limited larder”. They rush to the London theatre where an Oxford don has been giving “a lecture dolled up as a drama” on the …
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“I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror”. (arson McCullers, quoted in The Week) I have no idea what the context was of this remark, but it seems appropriate at this time of American elections. About to re-enter the American scene, I dread the whole down-and-dirty business. Epicurus disliked involvement in politics …
Here is something you may or may not know. The target of Revelations (New Testament) was originally the Roman Empire and the horrible things the Romans did to the Jews, including the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. The writer , John, was a refugee from that brutal war. Why was it included in the …
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money. (Abigail van Buren)
Carmen has raised a very important issue in her comment on “A question about Epicureanism” on August 4th. I think this issue deserves commenting upon in its own right. I quote her in part: For me the difficulty posed points to a weakness in Epicurean philosophy: a significant amount of the anxiety we experience …
