Honest Common Sense

At a writers' club I frequent, a writer from the Stroud area in Gloucestershire published the words of a wassail song, recently written ...

In a recent essay, I discussed how individuals and societies might fit together into a civilization based on a minimal set of rules of convi...

Recently, I identified and discussed six levels of community, of which human beings can be part. Today, I’ll look in more detail at the fift...

Today, I’m going to look at the idea of community. Like many words with political connotations, this is a slippery one. My own definition i...

This is the fourth in a series of essays, in which I aim to outline my ethical and political philosophy. And it’s the most radical yet! Rec...

A right, according to Webster’s, is “something to which one has a just claim.” The word is often uttered in sonorous phrases like “natural r...

Like “equality,” which I discussed recently, the word “justice” is used with different meanings by those of differing political opinions. I ...