To Be Virtuous

I first became aware of Nicholas Nassim Taleb from his book of Aphorisms which I picked up in a second-hand … More

An Atheist, a Catholic, and a Philosopher Walk Into a Bar: Three Writers on the Art of Drinking

The consumption of alcohol is an integral part of western culture going back to the ancients. In modern times there … More

I was listening to a podcast recently[1]- and the host Ross Patterson was interviewing one Catherine Clennan[2], who is a … More

Political violence reached another peak over the weekend in Charlottesville, when a man who appeared to have sympathies towards some … More

Good news- the New York Times solved income inequality. Well… not really. But they did publish an OpEd titled “Our … More

The internet is full of bad takes these days, giving everyone and their mother a publishing platform seems to have … More

See previous posts on this story here and here This week comes the final update in the story of Charlie Gard. … More

On the first of this month, I wrote about Charlie Gard, a child in the UK who after a protracted … More

I was listening to a podcast recently and I heard a statistic cited that floored me. It’s the kind of … More