You might have seen the picture above. It’s the Tacoma Narrows bridge which collapsed a few weeks after being built. Why? Well what you can see here is the perturbations from the wind being amplifi…| Club Troppo
Daily writing promptWhat aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?View all responses Brief SparksPride in culture?Meaningless cant.Inherited accidentsparaded as fate…| Musings from a Stonehead
I remember the shock of recognition I got reading liberal Raymond Aron’s critique of Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty. The ideal of a society in which each would choose his gods or his values cannot spread before individuals are educated to collective life. Hayek’s philosophy assumes, by definition, the results that the philosophers of the […]| Club Troppo
I came upon this explanation for millennials’ lack of a work ethic. I don’t want this to seem censorious of millennials. In fact I have no such complaint about millennials – but if my comments seem a little censorious of the (presumably millennial) author, I guess I’ll have to wear it. Nor do I intend […]| Club Troppo
As part of a new policy, I’m going to post stuff I’ve published on my substack here where it’s substantial enough, or where I want to be able to link to it without the distraction of all the other stuff I pack into my weekly substack digest. You really should subscribe! In any event, this […]| Club Troppo
The Gregorian revolution gave rise to a form of organisation that was gradually stamped out all over the Western world and then to its followers. Constitutional monarchy: A pyramid with a chief executive at the top with the rest of the pyramid made up of checks and balances on the chief executive (whether explicit or implicit) […]| Club Troppo
