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The Theory of the Leisure Class is a book by  Thorstein "Bunde" Veblen . It isn't very good. It has one good idea - conspicuo...

Back in April I presciently predicted, or perhaps just noted, The End of the World as We Know It , due to the Mango Mussolini's idiot t...

In the Middle East that is; the Russian invasion of Ukraine is doomed to grind on for longer I fear; more on that anon. Trump has a cunning ...

Following my previous brilliantly successful venture into art criticism , I feel emboldened to comment on The Hunt in the Forest, and friend...

I still haven't read the bloody thing, and at this rate I never will, but happily CarbonBrief have read it for me . I'm going to as...

Once again I'm briefly back. This time my excuse was a week - or thereabouts - canoeing around Stora La, a large lake in Sweden; booke...

In the ever-decreasing intervals between me having to be elsewhere, I find time to write a few words. First, if you've wondered where I...

Having dissed the Greeks , it's time for the Chinese. I assure you that this is a coincidence. But what isn't a matter of chance is...

I happened to pick up a copy of Greek Science by Benjamin Farrington  - well, time hangs heavy on retired hands, as Kipling warned us . The...

My last post started off as this post, so to speak, but mutated. Happily, the situation hasn't changed much in the last few days. Befo...

You'll likely be pleased to know that I'm not going to defend my headline too hard. But let's see how far I can get. Attempts t...

As the Police put it, respectfully touched up: The afternoon has gently passed me by Evening spreads itself against the sky Waiting for tom...

At Volokh , but it is Josh Blackman, who I think one of the weaker and distinctly more Trump-friendly, reporting Vance saying: You cannot h...

I've owned, and been meaning to read, this for years. Indeed my copy is marked up at the start of Vol II; but I get ahead of myself. Fi...

I'm not sure that the "midwit" text here is quite right; it is supposed, I think, to be something like "we derive our mo...

I seem not to have been optimistic since 2017 ; but really, life is better than that. The world is beautiful; I've made it out onto the...

I cannot resist a post on Trump and his foolish tariffs, mostly so I can look back in a few days or a year and think you fool, how could yo...