Category: Articles & Essays

“Bashing pseudo-science, fundamentalist religion and new age mumbo-jumbo has become a popular intellectual sport in recent years. But worthwhile as[…]

“It’s not unreasonable to think that a leader’s personal qualities matter as well as, if not as much as, their[…]

“Those in search of cut-price explanations for the current financial crisis could have picked up some bargains at the car[…]

“There seem to me to be two extreme, and implausible, strands of thought knocking around in the area of what[…]

“I’m hopeful that the information overload might be provoking a long-overdue upgrading of the general population’s capacity to distinguish for[…]