Friday, 30 December 2016

Cease your blasphemy

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The death of his father was announced to one of the monks: ‘Cease your blasphemy,’ said he to the person that told him; ‘my father is immort...
Thursday, 8 December 2016

When he arrived at Cambridge University he took 2,000 bottles of port with him

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The prize for the rowdiest port drinker goes to a Shropshire squire called John Mytton who drank between four and six bottles of port a day...
Thursday, 13 October 2016

Place a ladder, Acesius, and climb alone into heaven

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When, therefore, the emperor further asked him, ‘For what reason then do you separate yourself from communion with the rest of the Church?’...
Wednesday, 12 October 2016

I’m not so selfish as to believe that my relative happiness, including, but not limited to, twenty-four-hour access to chili burgers, Blu-ray, and Aeron office chairs is worth generations of suffering

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However, I’m not so selfish as to believe that my relative happiness, including, but not limited to, twenty-four-hour access to chili burge...
Tuesday, 11 October 2016

Walking is akin to begging in the streets

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L.A. is about space, and here one’s self-worth comes from how one chooses to navigate that space. Walking is akin to begging in the streets...
Wednesday, 21 September 2016

I think it comes from the innumeracy of our journalistic and intellectual culture

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Why the gloom [about the modern world]? Partly it's the result of market forces in the punditry business, which favours the Cassandras ...
Tuesday, 20 September 2016

Democracy came too early to America

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The historian Peter Spierenburg has provocatively suggested that 'democracy came too early' to America. In Europe, first the state d...