The Asshole Factory

Great article from Umair Haque on the sterility of the modern world: The Great Enterprise of the Age of Stagnation … More

The proper spirit of travel

Robert Byron writes in The Road to Oxiana (my reference is to the Pimlico edition of 2004, page 317) about … More

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish … More

If at eighty you’re not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a … More

From the Harvard Business Review, of all places, comes this really rather good article by Clayton Christensen on the importance … More

Warfare should be viewed like hunting, according to the old Byzantine text on the art of warfare, the the Strategikon … More