One of the weirder aspects of our current culture is the ritual abasement of alleged wrong-doers, usually in the form of a forced apology on...

Position Reserved , at various times, has been an outlet for exploring a variety of cultural and political issues of interest to me as wel...

My last blog posting on the May 13th Conway Hall Debate on Sex Work reminded me of a piece I wrote for Facebook connections five years ag...

Last week , we wrote on 'rights' which we think of as little more than demands and claims which cannot speak their name but must b...

I have never liked commandments, never accepted the claims of authority but only those of evidence-based persuasion or my own assessment of ...

The cultured English mind, until recently, could be defined as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and Bunyan, the Romantic Poets, the English Nove...

The psychologist James Fallon's account of his self proclaimed psychopathy in this article (October 6th, 2014) is highly plausible. We ...