Raritania

I generally have little patience for the news media's hastening to lavish breathless coverage on scandals of the more "personal...

Larry Summers' ignominious exit from the Presidency of Harvard--not so ignominious, of course, that Mr. Summers wasn't shortly back ...

In chapters ten, eleven and twelve of Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class the great sociologist has a good deal to say a...

These days we hear a great deal of what some deride as "medical conspiracy theory." Perhaps not the most important but certainly ...

We live in an extremely unequal society which is in a great many ways becoming more so all the time, not least socioeconomically. Those favo...

The panic over aging populations that has been with us since today's sixtysomething was a twentysomething, of course, began with the neo...

Not long ago I raised the matter of the debate over euthanasia, and how it had seemed to disappear at the turn of the century . My reading o...

First hearing of the so-called "Gen Z stare" ( this phenomenon actually has its own Wikipedia article ) my reaction was dismissiv...

It is in the character of today's gender politics that those given platforms by the mainstream media from which to speak of such matters...

These days we are hearing a LOT about "hypogamy," in which women are faced with the choice of either "marrying down" fro...

In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen held that the "habit of invidious comparison" was part of the package of bar...

For me one of the high points of American science fiction history was Horace Gold's tenure at Galaxy magazine. Mr. Gold may not have be...