I came across this video and statement from Rob Hopkins of the Transitions Towns movement. I like Rob and his work on transitions. I...

Socialism and Liberalism Let me start by declaring myself an ‘enemy’ of ‘the Open Society.’ If you are smart enough, you will understand...

Here’s a couple of recent articles highlighting the contemporary relevance of the ideas, example, and vision of the seventeenth century...

I wish to discuss aspects of this article, reviewing a new book by Erik Olin Wright: How to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st century I’d...

Why we need heroes like Greta Thunberg There is an ugly campaign underway to discredit Greta Thunberg. That campaign is based on fear of...

Charles Aznavour - Select Discography I was recently in Nice, enjoying myself immensely. I purchased a book containing all the songs and...

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

Fostering Transformative Motivations within Communities of Practice I’ve been re-reading Lewis Mumford recently, noting the contemporary...

God’s invitation to Play The Beauty that lights the path to the Truth and Goodness of the World Ecology friends on social media shared,...

Laying the Bogey of Eco-Authoritarianism to Rest Introduction I start by noting the extent to which defenders of the institutions of...

Politics for the Restoration of Ecological Hope I shall start with a quote from John Bellamy Foster’s article The Long Ecological...

Hell is So Boring! "'Heaven is so boring.' That’s the complaint of a modern-day version of Dante Alighieri in Inferno the Musical, a look...

Françoise Hardy Best Songs I have published a complete discography of the songs of Françoise Hardy. I shall provide the link at the...

One of the great themes in my old political theory and political sociology classes at university was the clash between elite theory and...

COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY The following table gives a (well-nigh) complete list of every song ever recorded by Françoise Hardy. Or, more...

Green Republicanism vs Anti-Political Extremism Sustaining the Health of the Political Environment I write this piece in response to the...

The Blight of Essentialism Hunting To begin, I quote from this feminist essay on the origins of the wrong turn taken by feminist studies...

Dante’s Sweet Symphony of Paradise I have been working on this book since February 2017. It started as an article on Dante and music as I...

Ecopoetics, disclosing the Hidden God in Nature “Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret,...

"Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car," William Blake Finding Meaning Through Metaphor The Power of Metaphoric Thinking Here is an...