So, you just got effective control of a nation’s government, by means we’ll not go into here (very inconvenient, the superpowers stopping as soon as you got this far). Your goal, naturally, is to extend your power, but no longer
Preachifying is a discipline prosecuted across the country on a regular basis. Some of its practitioners take it as an opportunity for blasphemy. Some restrain themselves to mere heresy. A few have a higher standard; they make an effort to,
I have read a fair amount of Gordon Clark, and because I agree with him as a rule, I very much enjoy disagreeing with him when he is wrong: his errors are generally intelligent and notable (see this article for
‘Ignorance of the law is no excuse.’ So say the legal textbooks, the judge’s rulings, and all the cavalcade of legal orthodoxy. Yet on the face of it, this seems unjust. How can I be accountable to a law I
Beware subjective morality. Online media criticism has some peculiarities. Among these is the term ‘Mary Sue,’ derived from a Star Trek fanzine story. The term is widely used and therefore, by the same virtue as other powerful pejoratives (‘fascist,’ ‘racist,’
A people has a right to retain its land. Private property is an important part of any just and healthy society. Private property should not be vulnerable to eminent domain (i.e. the government going ‘Mine now’, al a Naboth’s vineyard)
Eowyn stands as perhaps my favorite female character in all of fiction. A few there are which stand near her- Harriet Vane, for instance- and a few I will acknowledge as being, to my experience, as well written- Orual (Till
Liability, not regulation. Free market economics is near and dear to my heart. Essential to that economic model, however, is clear and accurate information. Fraud kills free enterprise nearly as fast as government (in part because it invites government action).
This is part of a mixed series between my Substack and this website, complete with a jumbled posting order. Go here for the first in the series (I, II). The next article in Islander #5 is an intriguing argument by