Here’s MacIntyre writing in 1989: It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading… Read More »Alasdair MacIntyre: Barbarians inside the walls
Was not being rich, powerful or famous?
Affection, in the sense that I mean it, is a broad kind of love: a gentler, more abiding, more generous way of feeling-toward, and of… Read More »A politics of affection
Words from the past for the present. … no name, no power, no function, no artificial institution whatsoever, can make the men, of whom any… Read More »Edmund Burke on virtue, experience and political leadership
Disclaimer: I am not much of a climber, nor am I a rope-access technician, nor have I sailed much beyond dingies. Don’t trust your life… Read More »Driverless Crocodile Knot Course (1): Foundations – The One Knot; or, The Overhand Variations
… so impractical is a purely rationalist politics, that the new man, lately risen to power, will often be found throwing away his book [-learned… Read More »Michael Oakeshott on apprenticeship and practical knowledge: “It takes two generations to learn a profession”
Auto flush is commonplace, and I assume you’re familiar with the gamification of urination by way of artfully placed fly transfer, designed to help users… Read More »Design Matters (25): Wingèd Urinal à la Toto with istinja spout; or, Fount of Knowledge
Those societies which retain, in changing circumstances, a lively sense of their own identity and continuity (which are without that hatred of their own experience… Read More »Michael Oakeshott on political activity and continuity
I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society [the English Revolutionary Society, which wrote… Read More »Edmund Burke on Circumstances and Political Principles; or, Context is King
Good or bad, “they’ll take you to places you’d never go alone”.