I have organised my philosophical work around three core and recurring themes: Being and Place, Rational Freedom, and the Natural Law....

Metaphorics - Mythology, Metaphysics, and Metaphor This essay was sparked by a quote on Mythos and mythology as things which give access...

Reason, Freedom, and God “Reason has always existed, but not always in a rational form. Hence the critic can take his cue from every...

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

An Integral Ecology - Ecological Writings I will begin with a message sent to me by process philosopher Arran Gare: Dear Peter Critchley,...

Dante: He Hath Seen Well The painting is “Dante (He Hath Seen Well)” by Jean-Leon Gerome I've seen some get this title wrong as "He Hath...

In face of a movement which takes some of your own themes, reduces and relativizes them by way of arbitrary, self-chosen standards, and...

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

The Best of People Yesterday I exchanged unpleasantries with someone who holds that “the best people can do in a crisis is panic buy...

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

I’ve just received a new article from Unheard in my inbox, ‘Libertarianism Never Ends Well’ by Mary Harrington, December 23 2020. The...

The Critique of Enlightened Self-Interest I am reading theorists working in the field of the commons advancing 'enlightened...

A Rational Environmentalism There has been yet another book published by a long-term member of the environmental movement, pointing out...

Too daft to laugh at, as the good folk of northern England would say. I wonder if these are the kind of people who have to be warned not...

Liberty as Licence Destroys Freedom I have just had the misfortune to hear an American ‘libertarian’ apologist for the anarchy of the...

CORONA V _ R _ S Remove the I and U and take them elsewhere into the building of a new public community based on the unity of each and...

If I may talk about myself (as usual), this interview with Jurgen Habermas caught my eye for personal reasons. I organized my work around...

Liberty, they say, when they mean licence. A microcosm of the libertarianism of recent decades. The anarchy of the rich and powerful...

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...

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