Conservative Tendency

The internet has taken the donkey-work out of academic research, and devalued personal memory and expertise. Much of my research time in the...

Massimo Pigliucci is a self-styled public intellectual who runs a blog misleadingly called Rationally Speaking . It is in fact highly politi...

Having a cause to stand for or to fight for can give meaning to life. As well as meaning and purpose, a cause can also confer on its uphol...

F.H. Bradley, the idealist philosopher, used to shoot cats (at night, in the grounds of Merton College, Oxford). Bradley was a dog man. In...

So often we see the truth of something, even talk or write about it, but don't fully realize the implications. And for me the implicatio...

I recently expressed an affinity for the social views of F.A. Hayek , noting that this position might appear to be difficult to reconcile wi...

Parking spaces are at a premium in my part of town. The old 'no parking' sign has been replaced by complex permit zones and new tech...