16 May 2026
Kiki and the basic moral principle
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I asked Google's AI (whom we call "Kiki") to find a post from the archives that relates to what's currently in the news, a...
25 March 2026
Story of my life — my ancestry
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This is the story of my life, but I can see much of myself in my parents, so I will start with them. My mother was, strictly speaking, a...
25 January 2026
Story of my life (1)
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I have not found it easy to write the story which follows. I am aware that I live in a society where the ideological trends and taboos which...
12 November 2025
Brainwashing at university?
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A contributor on Quora.com (Ted Kord) says, as part of his comments on the idea of students being brainwashed by leftist ideology: Now I’...
06 October 2025
The rise of the modern ideology
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The system of interpretations and evaluations that forms the modern anti-individualistic ideology is now apparently universally understood a...
19 September 2025
Hayek on intellectuals and socialism
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The following quotation is from Friedrich Hayek’s book The Fatal Conceit , first published in 1988, about the attitudes of intellectuals to...
02 July 2025
Guest post: Abolishing compulsory education
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Extract from an article by Gene Epstein on City Journal : In The Case Against Education , a persuasive indictment of his own industry, Geor...
19 April 2025
Religion, Shelley and Milton
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All basic religious ideas can be expressed in two forms: one personal and the other existential. In the first case the result is obnoxious, ...
17 February 2025
Hatred of intelligence
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The late Professor Hans Eysenck once told me about an experiment in which a population of rats was divided into ‘bright’ and ‘dull’ on some ...
17 December 2024
The basic moral principle
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Modern society has lost sight of the only moral principle of any importance, so that the individual citizen is basically unprotected against...
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