CELIA GREEN
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...
25 October 2024

The melancholy of genius and its causes

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guest post by Christine Fulcher Havelock Ellis makes some interesting points about the personality features of geniuses in his book A Stud...
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