torpedo the ark

"I know that for me, the war is wrong.  I know that, if the [Russians] wanted my little house,  I would rather give it them than fight ...

Der det er kvinne er det svane     I.    Perhaps my favourite sequence of poems by D. H. Lawrence is inspired by the Leda myth and playfull...

What food is this for the darkly flying  Fowls of the Afterwards! In a recent post [click here ], I compared the pleasure that ...

I've come to give you fruit from out of my garden ... I. It's interesting to compare the pleasure that Bertrand Russell t...

Albrecht Dürer: The Rhinoceros (1515) Even many non-philosophers know two stories concerning Wittgenstein's time at Cambridge:...

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Occam's razor is a convenient problem-solving principle attributed to a 14th-c...

I noticed long ago that one of the classic hallmarks or tell-tale signs of stupidity is the failure of a subject to recognise or own ...

18thC German depiction of Moloch During a memorial Mass for the murdered French priest, 85-year-old Father Jacques Hamel, the Archbis...

The Omphalos hypothesis - named after the title of a mid-19th century work written by Philip Henry Gosse which proposed, in keep...