
Tea and oranges
An old friend calls to have a chat. We say this and that, exchange helloes, answer each other’s “How are [...]

Kernels of fear
Year before last, when we first started to hear of COVID, I feigned interest and wrote it off. I don’t [...]

On goats, grunts, and God
Perhaps you are one of the idiots who believe in God and in angels, and maybe even in the devil. [...]

Abracadabra, the magic word
Maybe a chicken is clever enough to cross a road without the aid of a philosophy, but no human being [...]

A melting pot story
In America, in Europe, in every land populated by the descendants of Europeans there is, among a large number of [...]

And if he’s a she?
Late last year, in Brtiain, Maya Forstater, a tax specialist who worked for a think tank called the Global Center [...]

No brain to speak of
A Lyft driver once told me the daftest thing, that there are some rich old couples who, when one of [...]

There be dragons, and life
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness [...]

Jagged little innocent
A long time I ago I had an ovarian cyst. The way it happened was this: one fine morning, quite [...]

Muchness and Mosey
Up in the attic, there live two rabbits, Muchness and Mosey. I'd been wanting rabbits since at least the year [...]

The vital household
To better understand why so many people in the West end up in lifelong psychotherapy, it's helpful to consider other [...]