The US Election and the End of the Media Monoculture
There’s a strong gerontocratic tinge to US politics of late — the youngest of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Elizabeth...
Alasdair MacIntyre on how ethically lost we are
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="507"] A young Mondrian in 1908 channels an old Monet but is really thinking “I wonder if a bunch of rectangles on...
Escape from planet sensible: Stunning listening
Adolf never had much time for planet sensible. Here he is after the Reichstag fire with fellow traveller Sefton Delmer who was Berlin correspondent for...
The world of bullshit we’ve built: Reflections on a scene from Utopia
https://youtube.com/shorts/_XXLgZ8rYew?si=i8EWpLRcHJ3-rpjF I recently took my son to the stage play of Yes, Prime Minister. … The decades have made a huge difference in the sensibility of...
From repressive tolerance to repressive diversity
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="506"] A brilliant illustration of the broad terrain of both concepts. It’s telling (and sad for a left leaning centrist like me)...
The off-ramp from reality
This post began as an ad for an artist with traditional and AI graphic design skills. If you want to apply, please be my guest....
Understanding the present by listening to the past: Walter Lippmann’s “The Public Philosophy”
One way to get beneath the surface of what's going on is to read people who were writing about issues, as they emerged rather than...