Cae Mabon - the Welsh Shangri-la. Here are a few notes I made from the time I visited Cae Mabon in December 2016. I took lots of...

Zorba the Greek (Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas) is a novel written by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946. It...

Frédéric Gros: why going for a walk is the best way to free your mind "Walking is the best way to go more slowly than any other method...

I’d like to make a few comments and observations on autism and Asperger’s. After six months of discussion and investigation with my...

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be...

Back in the March of 2003, I bought a copy of Record Collector. I put it away with all my million other objects of musical passion and...

I waste far too much time commenting on issues of secondary importance and engaging with people whose views, as irritating as they are,...

DANTE’S SWEET SYMPHONY OF PARADISE SWEET SYMPHONY STRUCTURE AND ORDER OF ALL MATERIALS I set out to write a piece on the place and role...

A little ‘healing story.’ I’ll summarize. A year or so before he died, the story goes, writer Franz Kafka encountered a little girl in...

I’ll put this here, to keep myself out of trouble on social media. It seems that the Labour Party has been trounced at the election, and...

My work on Marx is described as ‘significant’ and ‘meticulous’ by Barbara Harriss-White in The Socialist Register. It is, actually. And...

There comes a point when the world, its events and its people finally become so overwhelming that you just have to call it a day. I had a...

I need to respond to a criticism from some on the left in politics of others on the left who have had the nerve to criticize the Greta...

Classless and Hapless I recently gathered my criticisms of Extinction Rebellion (XR) together and issued them on Academia, having...

Less a Forest than a Thicket of Greenwash This article from Alex Morss makes many excellent points. I love trees. In fact, everyone seems...

'The dual cross-over purpose is the question of a going beyond a productionist metaphysics that dominates the industrial age, to a new...

Emerging from Under Modernity's Shadow Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the...

The Unity of Social Formation and Character Formation Social formation and character formation proceed hand in hand as two aspects...

Superintelligence The fundamental problem of politics is how to transform societies composed of self-interested individuals and sectional...

Class, Capital, Climate Change, and the Common Good I found this ‘Open Letter to Greta Thunberg’ on a site subtitled ‘A rational take on...