Dangers in Designating “Monsters”
We live in a world of monstrous acts; where teenage girls are kidnapped, shots are fired on university campuses, suffering is seen as a form of entertainment, young...
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I’m a White A** Cracker: A Case Study in Privilege
(Please note that this post originally contained explicit reference to racist language which I have censored after a friend raised concerns about it. ) “So,...
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Can Promises Be Trusted?
In the recent past or near future over half the contributors to this blog will have made some of the most important promises of their lives in the form of wedding vows....
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In vino veritas
This week, I had the delicious pleasure of re-watching Dr. Strangelove, and reading Roger Scruton’s I Drink Therefore I Am. Scruton opens his book on philosophy and...
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The Poet and the Philosopher: Enemies or Allies?
As The Sound of Music’s Maria Rainer once advised, “let’s start at the very beginning; a very good place to start”. In the tradition of Western philosophy, to which...
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