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This is impiety? Did I insult the immortal gods, and will they sentence me to wander the seven seas, as did Ulysses, until I die? I think...

A settlement in Wiltshire, lost in the mists of time. In spring, there is a fertility rite whereby a virgin is taken to the old stone...

As a follow up to yesterday’s piece on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), there’s a notable democratic catch in the film. The film’s...

An elusion is a triple pretence; so, for example, there is a mental illness where a person pretends to have a mental illness—there is the...

There’s an observation from biology that “the organism continues to do what granted it success in the past”; hence, in the family...

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) features Jimmy Stewart in his typical role as a muddled everyman—Stewart almost always plays the same...

I always sleep with my window open, even in the mid-winter—the fact is that the heat induces rot and decay. The only way to really...

For a time, I thought that military training is equivalent to meditative training. The recruit is taken—as a self-absorbed...

Anarchists come in two varieties: amiable duffers and impulsive destroyers—they’re opposites to each other. The first type is exemplified...

What is it about “evidence”? We live in a society dominated by lawyers—case builders. In a sense, we’re all trained to be amateur...

Nietzsche hated Carlyle and the two men were basically opposites, although both are taken as inspirations for the right today. Carlyle...

Peaky Blinders and Hegel: these go together as follows—Hegel has an idea, really a commonsensical idea, that you only understand...

The film Zulu (1964) is a British perennial—it’s the type of film you might watch after you got tanked with the rowing club one night....

In the first place, the man he was in an altercation with had “no breath in him”. To understand what he means you have to know that...