Not Even Modern

(UPDATE: It seems Wilders' film has appeared . I'll have a look at it later). (UPDATE OF UPDATE: LiveLeak removed the film because o...

British philosopher Simon Blackburn has a draft article up on issues of religion and respect from a puzzled atheist perspective. Some thoug...

One book of poetry which I read frequently when I was about seventeen was Leonard Cohen's The Energy of Slaves . Rereading it now, it st...

I'm proud to say that I was a child dinosaur expert before it became fashionable - before what Stephen Jay Gould described as "the ...

I was reminded today of my love/hate relationship with my home country. Which I will define as the part of the Dutch province of Groningen c...

Have a very ambivalent relationship to the Marxist blog Lenin's Tomb blog. Particularly as Richard Seymour is so wrong-headed about so ...

So after weeks of Western media speculation that the Serbs would "understand political realities", "forego nationalism",...