Yesterday’s Papers
“Who wants yesterday’s papers? Who wants yesterday’s girl?” I have always been a Beatles-over-the-Rolling-Stones type of old slag. This lyric represents the reason. How could […]
Where did capitalism come from?
“This institutional gadget, which became the dominant force in the economy—now justly described as a market economy—then gave rise to yet another, even more extreme […]
Whose posterity is it?
There’s a popular literary game, which consists of predicting which writers will “endure”. Whenever the waters of clickbait grow still and old, some webzine […]
Ontological bluffing: a protest
There is a form of ontological bidding that gets to something in me, some resident respect for the old fashioned, Aristotelian rules of logic. […]
CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM AND THE ETHOS OF INTEGRITY
Throughout the 19th and 20th century, one stumbles upon the lefthand heirs of Burke – Red Tories, as Orwell called them. Orwell’s instincts, at least, […]