Wading Through Treacle

I’m seeing one potential guitar tutor for a trial lesson on Monday and another on Wednesday, which means there is - inevitably - at lea...

Aristotle, Formal Logic, and the Shape of “Essence” 1. Introduction I already wrote about the philosophical journey from Plato to Aris...

--- Cliodynamics and the Scottish Independence Movement Another example of the power of the Cliodynamics framework of analysis. Peter ...

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Amazon --- Cliodynamics on the novel '1984'? George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four presents us with a closed system. The Inner ...

SF for a Fifteen-Year-Old Boy Let's consider dystopian science fiction suited to a fifteen-year-old. Boy stuff , but nothing pitc...

Stringing at the headstock The blues-rock band Cream was formed in 1966 (I was 15); John Peel had his Sunday afternoon progressive music...

Amazon --- Cliodynamics on Marxism Karl Marx was not wrong to insist that history has structure. His great contribution was to frame so...

Amazon --- Peter Turchin argues that large-scale history is not just chaos but shaped by recurring social forces. His framework, called cl...

As a child I walk into my primary school with a fresh haircut. I am instantly surrounded by jeers, hoots and the kind of joyous sadism ...