Newton’s 1st and 3rd laws of motion state respectively that a body in motion tends to stay in motion and, each action provokes an equal and opposite reaction. These are physical laws that work pretty well. You can send a rocket to the moon on the basis of them. …

The G.K. Chesterton Twitter account once made reference to quotation I cannot find the original source for. The thought expressed is an interesting one: patriotism and imperialism are fundamentally opposed to one another, in that the former has respect for borders and the latter has none. It is a useful…

Bret Weinstein recently posted a video responding to a question about the evolutionary significance of the Fermi Paradox. The gist of the Fermi Paradox is as follows: if you crunch all the numbers, it is highly implausible that we are alone in the universe. …

People point to the Korean education system as an example of an archaic, over-wrought and over-pressurized approach to learning, that is harmful to its students. Korean education is indeed extreme. …

“There will be no end to the troubles of the state or indeed of humanity until philosophers become kings or until those we now call kings really and truly become philosophers.” Plato — The Republic This is one of the most famous quotations from Plato. It is taken from his…

The author and philosopher Nicholas Nassim Taleb (of ‘Black Swan’ fame) developed a concept called ‘Antifragility’. The theory is a counter-intuitive one: namely, that a regular series of negative events (“stressors”) keeps a system healthy so that it can resist larger, more catastrophic shocks when these arise. Conversely, a system…

The following text was the original plan for a conversation with Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. The conversation as it actually occurred can be accessed at the end of the text. Introduction By way of personal background, I grew up and was educated in the UK, and I now divide my…

Bill Clinton remarked in a fairly recent interview that the last great taboo in society is ‘that we can’t stand people who disagree with us’. Stateside, bemused bystanders are witnessing increasingly bizarre confrontations on college campuses, largely initiated by ultra-progressive activists, against political opponents whose speech, they believe, represents a…