What First Principles?
Tonight’s film was Romero (1989). Earlier this year my eldest and I were talking about a paper due for her international politics class on the Middle East, th...
Tag: power
Because I Said So
There is, yet again, a sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. I have not followed all the details, being somewhat unconcerned with Church politics a...
But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord
It seems only appropriate that Kevin Spacey should play the lead in House of Cards. The recent outburst of sexual assault allegations following an article in th...
Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
What with the renewed interest in a Russian antagonist recently, it has become fashionable in some circles to dismiss criticism as use of a rhetorical device th...
Fight the Power
Compulsory schooling is vile.
On the Nature of Power
Like electricity in the grid, use it or lose it.