The Tory shires are turning Green

A quiet revolution is underway in the dales and downs of rural England. What the conservative philosopher Edmund Burke called the “little platoons” — local churches, families, charities, and civic associations — are in open revolt against the party they …

The Final Countdown to CBDC

Though a work of fiction, this story draws inspiration from surveillance technologies that pervade our world today. If left unchecked, the scenario painted within this first chapter could become a hauntingly accurate reflection of life in the not-so-distant future. This …

The Real Purge in Academia

Dissent in America’s Universities, by David R. Barnhizer (Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. It takes on new relevance given events at Harvard and what they reveal about who rises and who falls within the ranks of elite academia and why.] 

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Fat positivity is a fantasy

If societal mores are designed for the comfort and prosperity of human beings, they are also necessarily designed to restrict the movement of human bodies. Some of these constraints seem only fair, and even intuitive: don’t step on people’s toes, …

Why our cities should be sacred

At some unknown moment in around 9,500 BC, hunter-gatherers in what is now south-east Turkey, and was then lush grasslands rich with pistachio and almond forests, and abundant with sheep and goats, did something for the first time in human …