06 September 2023
The cult of creativity
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One weakness of the pursuit of creativity is that it focuses attention on what seems to you to be significant (which admittedly is the only ...
02 August 2023
Out-of-the-Body Experiences
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My colleague Charles McCreery has recently published his book on out-of-the-body experiences. This is available from Amazon. Here are lin...
08 July 2023
The common good?
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Here is another extract from Ayn Rand’s book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal . Rand expresses scepticism about the ‘common good’, a concept po...
26 April 2023
Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand was the pen name of Alice O’Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum), a Russian-American writer and philosopher. Her most notable w...
13 March 2023
New book:
The Corpse and the Kingdom
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My new book, The Corpse and the Kingdom , is now available from Amazon. Below is an extract. SECOND INTRODUCTORY SCENARIO What you...
13 January 2023
Are schools bad for people?
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Extract from chapter ‘Dozing in the staff room’, in: It’s your time you’re wasting: A teacher’s tales of classroom hell , by Frank Chalk (...
01 November 2022
Children and Mill’s principle of liberty
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30 September 2022
The basic moral principle — II
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Part 1 of ‘The basic moral principle’ is here . Having stated the basic moral principle, it can be seen that it is freely violated in mo...
31 July 2022
The power of the lie
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The power of society depends on the power of the lie. The power of the lie is very great. The power of the individual depends on the right...
25 May 2022
The evolution of education
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There is a sense in which the authoritarian figures of a socialist society are far more authoritarian than those of a capitalist one. To ill...
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