Football Fandom & Theseus’s ParadoxWhat do football fans support if the players keep changing? — and not just the players, there’s the management, the coaches, the…Nov 7Nov 7
LOTR and the Far-RightGoogle ‘Lord of the Rings and the far-right’ and you’ll find a bunch of articles fretting over the far-right’s appropriation of Tolkien’s…Nov 11Nov 11
Kronk’s ChoiceThere’s a scene in The Emperor’s New Groove where Yzma’s henchman, Kronk, is ordered to kill the emperor Kuzco. But right before he’s about…Oct 19Oct 19
The Sicilian Mafia II: Family and Business‘They weren’t like anyone else. They did whatever they wanted.’Oct 1Oct 1
The Sicilian Mafia: Immigration and the ‘Alternate Economy’Opponents of immigration like to highlight the criminality of immigrants. Ben Shapiro, for instance, (in a sentence designed to deflect…Sep 26Sep 26
The Divided Unity of the Mediterranean: The Truth About Islamic SpainI recently came across a map of the Mediterranean which had been rotated 90° from its orientation in ordinary maps. This simple shift in…Sep 6Sep 6
How English is England?Nationalists believe in the homogeneity of their nation, which is corrupted, they claim, by immigration. The truth is, the homogeneity that…Aug 161Aug 161
Are Hierarchies Natural?We live, supposedly, in an egalitarian meritocracy — especially if we go solely by our laws and stated values. In practice, however, the…Aug 144Aug 144
Helaena Targaryen and the ‘Cassandra’ ArchetypeIn Season 2 of House of the Dragon, Queen Helaena has already made one correction prediction (foreseeing the ratcatchers attack on the…Aug 111Aug 111
The Return of Eugenics (and G. K. Chesterton’s Objection)Like physiognomy (the ‘science’ of judging people by their appearance), the taboo science of eugenics is making a return — particularly…Aug 82Aug 82
