Honest Common Sense

Today, I’m going to look at a mantra much trumpeted by environmentalists; the precautionary principle. I’ll seek to make a case that, since ...

Today, I’m going to write about science. This won’t be a technical paper. It won’t be full of numbers or equations. Instead, I’m going to lo...

A couple of weeks ago, I looked at political societies and ways of organizing them. Today, I’ll take another slice from the same piece of wo...

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...