Scrolling aimlessly through Twitter (a terrible time and life wasting habit), a question on exercise and fitness caught my eye. How do we...

Locating the Origins of the Modern Malaise The fate of our times is characterised by rationalisation and intellectualisation and, above...

The Triumph of the Virtues (also known as Minerva Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue) by Andrea Mantegna, 1502. Passing on the...

I’d like to quote from and briefly comment on this recent article by Paul Kingsnorth, The West has lost its roots The less moored our...

An Essay on Rational Freedom A brief introduction to the conception of 'rational freedom' which is the organizing principle of my work....

Ethics Outlines to my ethical writings by way of a guide. Titles, links, abstracts, and tables of contents. The Ecology of Good (2020)...

The Revolution that is Eating Itself I will begin with this scathing review of Douglas Murray's "The War on the West" by Patrick Deneen....

The Catholic Underpinnings of Rational Freedom “The Politics of Hell By Urban Hannon https://thejosias.com/2022/06/16/the-politics-of-hel...

The Education of Desire I wrote these short passages in response to a perceptive tweet on Twitter from an ecologist. This was the tweet:...

Pushing Back Against the Anti-Politics that is Tearing Society Apart I would like to comment on Giles Fraser's article published in...

Autocrats and Democrats I recently watched “The Internecine Project,” a movie I remember enjoying from the seventies and which I hadn’t...

The Motivational Economy [Written October 2020] This post has been incited by comments made by a number of people involved in bridging...

‘There are no facts, only interpretations.’ (Nietzsche). Scientist friends have discovered Nietzsche. Whereas in the past, he could be...

I went to an appalling secondary school, the Mount Olympus of what would later be called a ‘bog standard comprehensive.’ That dismissive...

The founder of BLM became a fraudulent brand after buying a $ 1.4 million home Marxist BLM leader buys $1.4 million home in ritzy LA...

I feel the need to make a little comment on a new book which argues that the critiques of Marx and Kierkegaard are complementary rather...

Fostering the Inner Motives and Virtues for Environmental Action I am reading conservative criticisms of what they call a ‘coercive...

Alasdair MacIntyre The Common Good as Common Project Alasdair MacIntyre: “Common Goods, Frequent Evils.” Keynote by Alasdair MacIntyre at...

"If my thesis is correct, Kant was right": Revisiting Kant's Role within MacIntyre's Critique of the Enlightenment Project by Kelvin...

Toleration is the ‘virtue’ most valued in an age that is shy of moral judgement. If there is no objective moral foundation for the good,...