Raritania

The environmental movement has taken numerous forms, and indeed, just about every conceivable form with regard to ideology, so much so that ...

It seems that today meat-eaters can hardly go a day without being subjected to a moral harangue about how their dietary preferences and noth...

London: Verso, 2011, pp. 352. As the rather charged and frankly offensive title of Owen Jones' book,  Chavs , implies, his concern is ...

Back in 1931 Astounding Science Fiction paid its writers two cents a word. This does not sound like very much. But one has to take inflat...

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018, pp. 368. Back in 2013 David Graeber penned an article for Strike! Magazine regarding what seemed to...

Watching Patrick Stewart in William Shatner's documentary The Captains' Close-Up talk about his childhood, I was surprised by his w...

What one might call the "myth" of the "New Hollywood" of the 1960s and 1970s is that the artists' hubris led to the...

I have already written a blog post about spotting trolls , but thought I'd present some of those thoughts again in a somewhat more syste...

We all know that the Internet, and especially social media, are inundated with trolls --pathetic, repugnant, dark triad -afflicted losers (n...

Many have encountered the claim, typically made by right-wing and especially libertarian commentators, that tax breaks are somehow not subsi...