The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Among those passages that resonate with those of a conservative temperament, one of my favourites has to be Chesterton’s Fence . In the ma...

In the strange no man's land between sleep and wakefulness, I sat on the plane. I had only gotten four hours of sleep the night before, ...

Continuing my foray into the illustrious brotherhood of the Froude Society , I’ve been reading Popular Government by Sir Henry Sumner Maine...

There are few things in this world more stable than a man’s self-image. You might think, perhaps reasonably, that values and core beliefs ...

As part of my ongoing attempts to join the illustrious brotherhood of the Froude Society , I’ve been reading ‘ The Bow of Ulysses ’, by Jame...

The Dissenting Sociologist began a post  recently with a quite striking sentence: “ The principle that “the wise shall govern the strong” ...

We live in an era with an extraordinarily limited imagination with respect to alternative worldviews. In the eternal present tense of the li...

The standard mythology of the right is that the constitution established separation of powers and limited government. By restricting the pow...

Let me ask you, dear reader, a fairly straightforward question. Suppose that you and your wife or husband are about to have a child. All e...