Essays in Idleness

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• Bananas
  December 19, 2024
• Ventilating
  December 17, 2024
• Idleness remembered
  December 13, 2024
• The Wizard of Oz
  December 9, 2024
• Christmas shopping
  December 7, 2024
• Is art redemptive?
  December 6, 2024
• Forgiveness
  December 4, 2024
• Origami
  December 2, 2024
• Saint Andrew
  November 30, 2024
• Time out
  November 4, 2024
• All Souls
  November 2, 2024
• Foot & mouth
  October 31, 2024
• Garbage
  October 29, 2024
• Voting instructions
  October 27, 2024
• Featherbedding
  October 24, 2024
• Exonerating greed
  October 22, 2024
• Who whom
  October 19, 2024
• A Canadian legacy
  October 17, 2024
• Meta Cognita
  October 14, 2024
• Para bellum
  October 11, 2024
• Hayek
  October 9, 2024
• October 7
  October 7, 2024
• Asheville
  October 5, 2024
• Misinformation
  October 3, 2024
• Retirement plan
  October 1, 2024
• The angel above
  September 30, 2024
• All hail Prudentius!
  September 28, 2024
• Four more years?
  September 23, 2024
• Predictive futility
  September 22, 2024
• Security
  September 17, 2024
• Our need for apocalypse
  September 16, 2024
• Poem for Friday the 13th
  September 13, 2024
• Making a splash
  September 12, 2024
• Political reality
  September 10, 2024
• Saint Bruno
  September 5, 2024
• Crede ut intellegas
  September 3, 2024
• The hobbyist
  September 2, 2024
• The ladder to all high designs
  August 29, 2024
• Let it be
  August 27, 2024
• Platonic formulations
  August 26, 2024
• Why write?
  August 22, 2024
• “Joy” in Chicagoland
  August 19, 2024
• The defence portfolio
  August 16, 2024
• More on uselessness
  August 15, 2024
• Oh, not to be in England
  August 14, 2024
• Out to get us?
  August 12, 2024
• Saint Lawrence
  August 10, 2024
• Reading Sedulius
  August 2, 2024
• Childless cat ladies
  July 31, 2024
• A conspiracy theory
  July 29, 2024
• Slower, lower, less noisome
  July 27, 2024
• A hack against badness
  July 23, 2024
• Ice cream
  July 21, 2024
• Sea of Tranquility
  July 20, 2024
• The importance of mockery
  July 17, 2024
• Annals of far-righteousness
  July 11, 2024
• Super-massive & up
  July 9, 2024
• Sendungen
  July 8, 2024
• Goo extraction
  July 5, 2024
• Toothy sleepers
  July 4, 2024
• Milking the blue whale
  July 2, 2024
• In days of yore …
  July 1, 2024
• Deficit made flesh
  June 30, 2024
• How to not watch
  June 27, 2024
• A mediaeval jest
  June 26, 2024
• Checking the returns
  June 25, 2024
• The rising youff
  June 22, 2024
• Pleasure in a toothache
  June 20, 2024
• The end of PayPal
  June 17, 2024
• Understanding newspeak
  June 15, 2024
• Ajummas
  June 14, 2024
• The frugal “vision”
  June 13, 2024
• Downsizing
  June 11, 2024
• Publishing & perishing
  June 10, 2024
• Defensive strategies
  June 8, 2024
• Eight decades on
  June 6, 2024
• The joy of sexagesimals
  June 5, 2024
• Lauds
  June 2, 2024
• Trial by sleaze
  June 1, 2024
• The third egg
  May 23, 2024
• The Matthew
  May 21, 2024
• Fête de la Reigne
  May 20, 2024
• Convenience is tyranny
  May 18, 2024
• Deeper fakes
  May 16, 2024
• Skyscrapers
  May 14, 2024
• Being right
  May 13, 2024
• Prog cons
  May 10, 2024
• Torchlight
  May 8, 2024
• Bi-polarity
  May 7, 2024
• Arians, under every bed
  May 4, 2024
• Contra mundum
  May 2, 2024
• Lying in debate
  April 30, 2024
• Laetatus sum
  April 29, 2024
• Expressionist
  April 28, 2024
• The Luddite’s dilemma
  April 25, 2024
• Electronic materialism
  April 23, 2024
• Throwing rocks
  April 22, 2024
• Spirited fugue
  April 20, 2024
• The good stabbing
  April 18, 2024
• Dead babies
  April 14, 2024
• Acrasia
  April 13, 2024
• The long war
  April 11, 2024
• Hateful anti-hatists
  April 9, 2024
• Dispensing fault
  April 5, 2024
• Indolent piece
  April 2, 2024
• Stochastic Easter
  March 30, 2024
• A very Good Friday
  March 29, 2024
• Concrete
  March 27, 2024
• Veritas iubet
  March 25, 2024
• The living dead
  March 24, 2024
• Musk repellants
  March 22, 2024
• Narcissus army
  March 19, 2024
• Strong leaders
  March 18, 2024
• Prisoners enchained
  March 15, 2024
• Relieving man’s estate
  March 14, 2024
• Unextirpations
  March 11, 2024
• MLXVI & all that
  March 10, 2024
• Art in everyday life
  March 5, 2024
• Blessed Luddites
  March 4, 2024
• Land & sea
  March 2, 2024
• Bissextilism
  February 29, 2024
• Spiritual warfare
  February 26, 2024
• Two years later
  February 24, 2024
• The woman’s vote
  February 22, 2024
• Little Hunting Creek
  February 19, 2024
• Holy war
  February 15, 2024
• Chaste Valentine
  February 14, 2024
• Baconator Monday
  February 12, 2024
• Don’t worry; be happy
  February 10, 2024
• Wedding bellwethers
  February 6, 2024
• Fu on the idle life
  February 5, 2024
• Down with Expressionism
  February 3, 2024
• Candlemas
  February 2, 2024
• Taking leave
  February 1, 2024
• Tempora mutantur
  January 30, 2024
• Arctic farming
  January 29, 2024
• Too much college
  January 27, 2024
• Yesterday
  January 22, 2024
• Equinophobia?
  January 21, 2024
• Tectonic reflexions
  January 20, 2024
• Primum non nocere
  January 19, 2024
• Laser guns
  January 16, 2024
• Democracy leads to Hell
  January 14, 2024
• Father Boyd
  January 13, 2024
• Shalom
  January 11, 2024
• Ignominious scandal
  January 9, 2024
• Dedication
  January 7, 2024
• Endless epiphanies
  January 6, 2024
• Messaging
  January 4, 2024
• Sursum corda
  January 1, 2024
• The score
  December 31, 2023
• Psalmi idiotici
  December 28, 2023
• Absurd merriment
  December 25, 2023
• Blessing irrationality
  December 22, 2023
• Flight of freedom
  December 21, 2023
• Elon’s babies
  December 18, 2023
• O Wisdom
  December 17, 2023
• Trends to reverse
  December 14, 2023
• University reform
  December 11, 2023
• Gleichschaltung
  December 9, 2023
• Resisting eco-lunacy
  December 6, 2023
• The Greenies
  December 5, 2023
• Parousia
  December 4, 2023
• The law office
  November 30, 2023
• Privileged speech
  November 28, 2023
• The soft & the hard
  November 27, 2023
• Post scriptum
  November 24, 2023
• American Thanksgiving
  November 23, 2023
• Flinching
  November 20, 2023
• To the sea
  November 11, 2023
• Journalists
  November 10, 2023
• El clero moderno …
  November 7, 2023
• Totally war
  November 6, 2023
• All Souls
  November 2, 2023
• A few ideas
  October 30, 2023
• Prayer intentions
  October 27, 2023
• Mobilization
  October 26, 2023
• Versus
  October 23, 2023
• Inconvenience
  October 13, 2023
• Iron domesticity
  October 11, 2023
• Gun ownership
  October 9, 2023
• More war
  October 8, 2023
• Wasted years
  October 2, 2023
• Intersectionality
  October 1, 2023
• The goatherd’s tale
  September 26, 2023
• Felicity
  September 24, 2023
• Extremists
  September 23, 2023
• Virtuality signalling
  September 18, 2023
• Moral panic
  September 14, 2023
• Taking care
  September 13, 2023
• Nine Eleven
  September 11, 2023
• Small is prettier
  September 8, 2023
• Fine & private
  September 5, 2023
• Computer yes & no
  August 30, 2023
• Old excuses
  August 24, 2023
• Unscrupulosity
  August 22, 2023
• Silver hammer
  August 19, 2023
• Vox populi, vox diaboli
  August 14, 2023
• Drill & kill
  August 12, 2023
• Ten thousand things
  August 10, 2023
• Signs of the times
  August 5, 2023
• Slaving & piracy
  August 4, 2023
• Damnable sprinkling
  August 3, 2023
• The Toronto theory
  August 1, 2023
• Gremlins & visionaries
  July 31, 2023
• Preternaturalism
  July 30, 2023
• Just stop cars
  July 27, 2023
• Rooting
  July 25, 2023
• Neediness
  July 24, 2023
• Diversity
  July 21, 2023
• The Donet
  July 9, 2023
• Counting souls
  July 6, 2023
• Fête du Dominion
  July 1, 2023
• Prognostication
  June 23, 2023
• Estival solstice
  June 21, 2023
• Defensor pacis
  June 20, 2023
• Non-corporatism
  June 18, 2023
• Heraclitean fire
  June 12, 2023
• Humanitas
  June 10, 2023
• Provocations
  June 7, 2023
• Counter-revolutionary thought
  June 5, 2023
• Vandalism
  June 3, 2023
• Diversity
  May 30, 2023
• Against fucking
  May 25, 2023
• Inflammation & swelling
  May 22, 2023
• Burmese noodles
  May 20, 2023
• Perfect object
  May 14, 2023
• Posthumization
  May 11, 2023
• Coronation
  May 6, 2023
• LXX
  April 29, 2023
• Uniparty news
  April 25, 2023
• Two into two
  April 24, 2023
• Pay cuts
  April 21, 2023
• Duodecimal aside
  April 18, 2023
• Morning light
  April 16, 2023
• Regeneration
  April 13, 2023
• Revulsion against chivalry
  April 6, 2023
• A business opportunity
  April 3, 2023
• Artificial imbecility
  March 31, 2023
• Consequence of voting
  March 29, 2023
• Money & power
  March 25, 2023
• The joy of vinegar
  March 22, 2023
• Smell testing
  March 17, 2023
• Time-saving devices
  March 15, 2023
• Taking one’s leave
  March 13, 2023
• Things get worse
  March 6, 2023
• Before & after
  March 4, 2023
• Protection rackets
  March 3, 2023
• Unnecessary acts
  March 2, 2023
• Subsidia
  February 28, 2023
• Tangled Webb
  February 23, 2023
• The last day
  February 21, 2023
• My tax plan
  February 19, 2023
• One thing & another
  February 17, 2023
• Zygotic developments
  February 14, 2023
• Salutary neglect
  February 6, 2023
• Dignified flippancy
  February 5, 2023
• Looking down
  February 1, 2023
• Tall tales
  January 30, 2023
• Reality bites
  January 24, 2023
• Translating into words
  January 20, 2023
• Health nazis
  January 18, 2023
• Death of a straight shooter
  January 14, 2023
• Dear friends
  January 9, 2023
• Towards Epiphany
  January 5, 2023
• Papa Ratzinger
  December 31, 2022
• Beginning again
  December 26, 2022
• Christmas advice
  December 25, 2022
• Sensationalism
  December 21, 2022
• The news & the weather
  December 14, 2022
• Vitai lampada
  December 12, 2022
• Taking sides
  December 9, 2022
• Pleasures of ischaemia
  December 6, 2022
• Cut them out
  November 30, 2022
• On an African note
  November 28, 2022
• Into the blackness
  November 25, 2022
• Mary, Mary
  November 23, 2022
• Bluster signalling
  November 21, 2022
• The sale of souls
  November 14, 2022
• Final sale
  November 11, 2022
• Good work, Yankees
  November 9, 2022
• Compressor technology
  November 7, 2022
• The sun & the mind
  October 27, 2022
• More downsizing
  October 18, 2022
• Downsizing, cont.
  October 17, 2022
• Downsizing Satan
  October 16, 2022
• Thanksgiving in Canada
  October 10, 2022
• Had enough war?
  October 8, 2022
• The progress of complexity
  October 3, 2022
• Ten years of “Tzurezuregoosing”
  September 29, 2022
• In praise of high interest
  September 24, 2022
• His Majesty
  September 20, 2022
• Nativity of Mary
  September 9, 2022
• Seventy years
  September 8, 2022
• The need for restraints
  September 5, 2022
• Newman on the art of war
  September 2, 2022
• Apolaustic reflections
  August 30, 2022
• The art of Jesuit-poking
  August 29, 2022
• Otras inquisiciones
  August 27, 2022
• Depends what you read
  August 17, 2022
• The wilful vegetable
  July 20, 2022
• On my sins
  July 11, 2022
• Waving the flag
  July 2, 2022
• Status quo ante
  June 25, 2022
• Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
  June 22, 2022
• Father’s Day
  June 19, 2022
• Natalya lost
  June 14, 2022
• Recommending treason
  June 12, 2022
• The beauty of a world in confusion
  June 6, 2022
• The shooter’s guide
  May 28, 2022
• An open mind on nukes
  May 24, 2022
• The misery of life
  May 13, 2022
• National distancing
  May 11, 2022
• Leaking sensations
  May 6, 2022
• The barking of NATO
  May 3, 2022
• Divisions on a ground
  April 26, 2022
• Why peace is hard
  April 25, 2022
• Sanctions
  April 20, 2022
• War patriarchs
  April 18, 2022
• Easter morning
  April 17, 2022
• Easter eggs
  April 13, 2022
• More or less
  April 9, 2022
• What is a man?
  April 5, 2022
• Peaceful shelling
  April 1, 2022
• The misery index
  March 31, 2022
• Verdunish episodes
  March 26, 2022
• War & peace
  March 23, 2022
• Zapad
  March 21, 2022
• Faith in dollars
  March 18, 2022
• Price resistance
  March 17, 2022
• Cogito, ergo?
  March 15, 2022
• Placidly recalled
  March 12, 2022
• Sanctions
  March 8, 2022
• The path out
  March 5, 2022
• The principal newscaster
  March 2, 2022
• Slava Ukraini!
  March 1, 2022
• Blue & gold
  February 26, 2022
• Towards Kiev
  February 25, 2022
• Piping Pollers
  February 24, 2022
• Your most sweet voices
  February 22, 2022
• Marie de l’Incarnation
  February 19, 2022
• Stop it now
  February 17, 2022
• “Emergency”
  February 15, 2022
• Little truths
  February 11, 2022
• Big lies
  February 10, 2022
• Reconstructing Ottawa
  February 8, 2022
• The Queen
  February 6, 2022
• Solidarność
  February 5, 2022
• Peace must be dared
  February 4, 2022
• Honk! Honk!
  February 3, 2022
• Dissolution
  February 1, 2022
• Vive le Canada libre
  January 29, 2022
• Convoys
  January 27, 2022
• In lovely blueness
  January 26, 2022
• Out of wedlock
  January 24, 2022
• Fading away
  January 22, 2022
• The anger of John Ruskin
  January 19, 2022
• Passing news
  January 15, 2022
• Quarantine
  January 13, 2022
• Batflu tidings
  January 10, 2022
• A million dollars
  January 8, 2022
• Suzy Creamcheese examined
  January 5, 2022
• Y2K22
  January 3, 2022
• Which witches?
  January 2, 2022
• A curious date
  December 31, 2021
• Gravelly mud-balls
  December 29, 2021
• Ted Byfield
  December 26, 2021
• Protocols for leaving
  December 24, 2021
• About the keb hoose
  December 20, 2021
• Batflu redivivus
  December 18, 2021
• Crowd control
  December 13, 2021
• Our Lady in Advent
  December 10, 2021
• Of flies & ants
  December 8, 2021
• Grace v. Karma
  December 6, 2021
• A new year
  November 28, 2021
• Black Friday
  November 26, 2021
• Nostalgia
  November 23, 2021
• Detestation
  November 16, 2021
• Dignity
  November 13, 2021
• Armistice?
  November 11, 2021
• Christ the King
  October 31, 2021
• Vegging
  October 18, 2021
• Book use
  October 1, 2021
• Michaelmas day
  September 29, 2021
• The vote
  September 20, 2021
• Blowing them away
  September 18, 2021
• Keepers
  September 16, 2021
• Twenty years
  September 11, 2021
• Things go better with Coke?
  September 8, 2021
• The calendar
  September 1, 2021
• Against commerce
  August 31, 2021
• Lightning
  August 19, 2021
• Afghanistan
  August 16, 2021
• An inconceivable God
  August 10, 2021
• Discernment
  August 4, 2021
• A rainbow nation
  July 30, 2021
• Mr Warren advises
  July 28, 2021
• Erasing a pope
  July 22, 2021
• Senior bureaucrat’s farewell
  July 17, 2021
• The importance of mockery
  July 14, 2021
• A young country
  July 7, 2021
• Dominion Day
  July 1, 2021
• Curing apathy
  June 29, 2021
• The spaceship sightings
  June 26, 2021
• A home somewhere
  June 23, 2021
• Vivat academia
  June 17, 2021
• Laudate
  June 14, 2021
• Misfortunes of Elphin
  June 10, 2021
• Egerton Ryerson
  June 7, 2021
• An optimistic rejoinder
  May 31, 2021
• In time
  May 26, 2021
• You could take the bus
  May 21, 2021
• Nutrition
  May 17, 2021
• Vacating sense
  May 13, 2021
• The visitors
  May 11, 2021
• Age of Revision
  May 4, 2021
• Things to do
  April 28, 2021
• Latest news
  April 10, 2021
• Supplementary
  March 24, 2021
• Progress
  March 17, 2021
• An update
  February 13, 2021
• Writerly thoughts
  February 11, 2021
• The secret strategy
  February 10, 2021
• A backward glance
  February 9, 2021
• Repeat after me
  February 8, 2021
• Chronicles of hirsute
  February 6, 2021
• In praise of nutjobs
  February 5, 2021
• Of parasites
  February 4, 2021
• The Cilicia
  February 3, 2021
• Great minds are interchangeable
  February 2, 2021
• The eighth day
  January 31, 2021
• The ammunition shortage (a rant)
  January 30, 2021
• Cataleptic Friday
  January 29, 2021
• A stretch beyond
  January 28, 2021
• Rant week, continued
  January 27, 2021
• I’ve had enough
  January 26, 2021
• Monday morning rant
  January 25, 2021
• Creative fatalism
  January 24, 2021
• The consensus v. the consensual
  January 23, 2021
• Convenience
  January 22, 2021
• Wealth & power
  January 21, 2021
• Plutarch on envy & hatred
  January 20, 2021
• Twice a day
  January 19, 2021
• The missing link
  January 18, 2021
• One last harrumph for Trumph
  January 16, 2021
• Excuses, excuses
  January 15, 2021
• How to make a scene
  January 14, 2021
• Five feet of fury
  January 13, 2021
• A world of promise
  January 12, 2021
• Upstream & down
  January 11, 2021
• The week in review
  January 9, 2021
• Morning after morning after
  January 8, 2021
• Antiantifa in action
  January 7, 2021
• Epiphany
  January 6, 2021
• The future of pugnacity
  January 5, 2021
• Natal homing
  January 4, 2021
• Resolution
  January 1, 2021
• Year-end
  December 31, 2020
• A petition
  December 30, 2020
• The head start
  December 29, 2020
• Childermas
  December 28, 2020
• A Christmas story
  December 25, 2020
• For Jesus
  December 24, 2020
• Darkness at Christmas
  December 23, 2020
• Forgotten places
  December 22, 2020
• The final tally
  December 21, 2020
• War war war
  December 19, 2020
• How the war is going
  December 18, 2020
• The trumpet call
  December 17, 2020
• Consider the lily
  December 16, 2020
• Florality & bouncing
  December 15, 2020
• Gizmotica
  December 14, 2020
• Plague stories
  December 11, 2020
• Desinification
  December 10, 2020
• The poor always with us
  December 9, 2020
• Ungulate watch
  December 8, 2020
• Reduced to this
  December 7, 2020
• Canine aside
  December 5, 2020
• Oriental memoir
  December 4, 2020
• Returned ballots
  December 3, 2020
• Threatening democracy
  December 2, 2020
• Die Lösung
  December 1, 2020
• On endangered species
  November 30, 2020
• Black Friday obstination
  November 27, 2020
• Dining out
  November 26, 2020
• Eve of whatever
  November 25, 2020
• Building back baffled
  November 24, 2020
• Chronicles of hyperventilation
  November 23, 2020
• A threesome
  November 21, 2020
• Death of an atheist
  November 20, 2020
• Locked & loaded
  November 19, 2020
• Conspirators, ho!
  November 18, 2020
• On hand tools
  November 17, 2020
• Moan moan moan
  November 14, 2020
• Cohabiting with elephants
  November 13, 2020
• Paying one’s way
  November 12, 2020
• Non-idlers
  November 11, 2020
• Big, red, & shiny
  November 10, 2020
• Cottage cheese & noodles
  November 9, 2020
• Your problems solved
  November 7, 2020
• Bird-brained discussion
  November 6, 2020
• The morning after
  November 4, 2020
• Today in history
  November 3, 2020
• General declaration
  November 2, 2020
• The insulted & abused
  October 31, 2020
• Fear not
  October 30, 2020
• Priestcraft, then & now
  October 29, 2020
• Morning in America?
  October 28, 2020
• Against perspective
  October 26, 2020
• Frugal to the end
  October 24, 2020
• Reform proposal
  October 23, 2020
• Otiosus rants
  October 22, 2020
• Swamp creatures
  October 20, 2020
• Where to turn?
  October 19, 2020
• Joy & futility
  October 17, 2020
• Deep tech
  October 16, 2020
• Notes on cancellation
  October 15, 2020
• Thanksgiving, cont.
  October 14, 2020
• Meta incognita
  October 13, 2020
• Remembering the ur-Trudeau
  October 10, 2020
• Arcadians versus Utopians
  October 9, 2020
• Let it pour
  October 7, 2020
• A problem
  October 6, 2020
• Hymn to spaghettini
  October 5, 2020
• Trump as Constantine
  October 3, 2020
• An ill-spent youff
  October 2, 2020
• The streetfight
  October 1, 2020
• The necessary angel
  September 29, 2020
• A visit from Mr P
  September 28, 2020
• On our modern audio
  September 25, 2020
• Tanagra
  September 23, 2020
• Getting married
  September 22, 2020
• Back to stability
  September 21, 2020
• Mrs Ginsburg
  September 19, 2020
• An old song
  September 17, 2020
• Monks have more fun
  September 16, 2020
• On the bright side
  September 15, 2020
• De-programming suggestion
  September 14, 2020
• On the walking dead
  September 11, 2020
• What?
  September 10, 2020
• How to rise
  September 8, 2020
• Meditation for Labour Day
  September 7, 2020
• The cost of compliance
  September 5, 2020
• Reparations
  September 3, 2020
• Florentine aside
  September 2, 2020
• We are not fragile
  September 1, 2020
• Abandoned
  August 29, 2020
• Of sevens & seventies
  August 28, 2020
• Hoops within hoops
  August 27, 2020
• Political diary
  August 25, 2020
• In praise of the lash
  August 24, 2020
• Being there
  August 22, 2020
• Digging deeper
  August 21, 2020
• Of cake & cookies
  August 19, 2020
• A master mariner
  August 18, 2020
• On flattery & slaving
  August 17, 2020
• On the growth of madness
  August 15, 2020
• Compliments to the felines
  August 14, 2020
• Next year in Jerusalem
  August 13, 2020
• The fire this time
  August 12, 2020
• The veepstakes
  August 11, 2020
• Back to the Bronze Age
  August 10, 2020
• Dare we hope?
  August 8, 2020
• Ignore, gentle reader!
  August 6, 2020
• High-explosive chronicles
  August 5, 2020
• Astronomical aside
  August 4, 2020
• Women & type
  August 3, 2020
• The will to pauvre
  August 1, 2020
• On the future
  July 31, 2020
• Apology to the flittermice
  July 30, 2020
• Retractiones
  July 29, 2020
• A bourgeois moralist
  July 28, 2020
• Voting intentions
  July 27, 2020
• Belloc Night
  July 25, 2020
• V for Victory
  July 24, 2020
• Entitlement
  July 23, 2020
• Urban elevations
  July 22, 2020
• A minority view
  July 21, 2020
• Livestreamed
  July 20, 2020
• Free speech
  July 18, 2020
• Baby bust chronicles
  July 17, 2020
• Should slavery be restored?
  July 16, 2020
• Bat-mask protocols
  July 15, 2020
• Standing tall
  July 14, 2020
• Thoughts on identity
  July 13, 2020
• Progressive woke & profitable
  July 11, 2020
• Apocalyptic aside
  July 10, 2020
• Anarchia
  July 9, 2020
• Lives matter
  July 8, 2020
• On making noise
  July 7, 2020
• Malign fiesta
  July 6, 2020
• The rockin’ chronicles
  July 4, 2020
• Blue skies
  July 3, 2020
• How to defeat leftists
  July 2, 2020
• He shall have Dominion
  July 1, 2020
• Thomas Sowell at four score & ten
  June 30, 2020
• The triumph of Dullness
  June 29, 2020
• Enforcing whiteness
  June 20, 2020
• A note on sternutation
  June 19, 2020
• Answering to a “need”
  June 18, 2020
• To hell with liberals & conservatives
  June 17, 2020
• The monied & gated
  June 16, 2020
• At sea
  June 14, 2020
• The long & winding snake
  June 13, 2020
• The more subtle strategy
  June 12, 2020
• Chronicles of scientism
  June 11, 2020
• Karens & their kind
  June 10, 2020
• Aside on skulls & crossbones
  June 9, 2020
• A quaint reflection
  June 8, 2020
• On kneeling
  June 6, 2020
• Problems that solve themselves
  June 5, 2020
• The Father
  June 4, 2020
• Mediations
  June 2, 2020
• The sewer pipe
  June 1, 2020
• Rioting for fun & profit
  May 30, 2020
• Collegium electorale
  May 29, 2020
• Getting dirty
  May 28, 2020
• Fight them on the beaches, &c
  May 27, 2020
• The disciplined child
  May 26, 2020
• Inexplicable Ascension
  May 24, 2020
• Social isolation
  May 23, 2020
• On juvenile delinquency
  May 22, 2020
• The GPS society
  May 19, 2020
• Hope v. optimism
  May 18, 2020
• Then & now
  May 16, 2020
• Our current regimen of lies
  May 15, 2020
• On the value of a human life
  May 14, 2020
• Fear & freedom
  May 13, 2020
• How to get rich
  May 12, 2020
• Anomie
  May 11, 2020
• On Mother’s Day
  May 10, 2020
• Be safe, or you will be shot!
  May 9, 2020
• On paint-by-numbers
  May 8, 2020
• Rats in labcoats
  May 6, 2020
• On celebrating “identity”
  May 5, 2020
• Being made ill
  May 4, 2020
• Sharp words
  May 2, 2020
• Forever Saigon
  May 1, 2020
• Captain Cook
  April 30, 2020
• Fly-by
  April 29, 2020
• Isaiah says
  April 28, 2020
• Lent is over
  April 26, 2020
• On testing
  April 25, 2020
• Prickles the sheep
  April 24, 2020
• Of England & Saint George
  April 23, 2020
• Earth Day revisited
  April 22, 2020
• Typhoid Mary
  April 21, 2020
• Free press
  April 20, 2020
• Keeping one’s peace
  April 18, 2020
• Let us express ourselves
  April 17, 2020
• The world cannot be fixed
  April 16, 2020
• Free the cows!
  April 15, 2020
• Be afraid, be very afraid
  April 14, 2020
• Insurance adjustments
  April 13, 2020
• Towards a Vigil
  April 11, 2020
• Jesus is going to die
  April 9, 2020
• Flevit super illam
  April 5, 2020
• Are you spaced correctly?
  April 3, 2020
• Those who think they know
  April 2, 2020
• Revolutionary aside
  April 1, 2020
• On the invention of fake news
  March 31, 2020
• Another view
  March 28, 2020
• More sensitive today
  March 27, 2020
• The DNR chronicles
  March 26, 2020
• On capitalist competition
  March 25, 2020
• On living dangerously
  March 24, 2020
• Perhaps I am insensitive
  March 21, 2020
• Making distance
  March 20, 2020
• Homeschool
  March 19, 2020
• War, famine, plague, millennials
  March 18, 2020
• Your days are numbered
  March 17, 2020
• The leap
  March 15, 2020
• “Bye-bye”
  March 13, 2020
• How to lose
  March 12, 2020
• Listen to Ibn Hazm
  March 10, 2020
• The pandemic prattle
  March 9, 2020
• Fun with figures
  March 6, 2020
• Politics of Gethsemane
  March 3, 2020
• A look inside
  February 28, 2020
• Joy & foreboding
  February 25, 2020
• On paper logic
  February 22, 2020
• Selfie deaths
  February 21, 2020
• Contagion out of China
  February 20, 2020
• A killjoy writes
  February 17, 2020
• True love
  February 14, 2020
• Sceptical thoughts
  February 11, 2020
• In defence of materialism
  February 8, 2020
• Kakistocracy
  February 6, 2020
• Aesthetic economics
  February 4, 2020
• The temporal zone
  January 31, 2020
• Tweedjackets unite
  January 30, 2020
• Cui bono?
  January 27, 2020
• Not drowning but waving
  January 24, 2020
• Cancel culture
  January 21, 2020
• Aside on beuks
  January 17, 2020
• Simplicity itself
  January 14, 2020
• Sir Roger Scruton
  January 13, 2020
• Morbid insecurity
  January 11, 2020
• Security
  January 8, 2020
• Still lifes
  January 5, 2020
• Looking ahead
  December 31, 2019
• Of head shots
  December 30, 2019
• Massacre of the Innocents
  December 28, 2019
• Thankless Christmas
  December 25, 2019
• God rest you merry
  December 24, 2019
• That time of year
  December 23, 2019
• De seculo & religione
  December 20, 2019
• Another day
  December 18, 2019
• Things of the day
  December 17, 2019
• On coal mining
  December 14, 2019
• Pointless happiness
  December 13, 2019
• Derangements I have known
  December 12, 2019
• Darlings
  December 11, 2019
• Back to normalcy
  December 9, 2019
• Insufferables v. Deplorables
  December 6, 2019
• Remembering humanism
  December 3, 2019
• Golf with firearms
  December 2, 2019
• Black Friday again
  November 29, 2019
• Merican Thanksgiving
  November 28, 2019
• Cat’s cradles
  November 26, 2019
• Breviary notes
  November 23, 2019
• Off & running
  November 22, 2019
• A good question
  November 18, 2019
• Space, time, & so forth
  November 15, 2019
• Hang ’em high chronicles
  November 12, 2019
• Unending descent
  November 11, 2019
• On getting up
  November 8, 2019
• Our Kingdom, where?
  November 5, 2019
• A conceptual thing
  November 4, 2019
• Derek Chisholm
  November 2, 2019
• All Hallows E’en
  October 31, 2019
• Of love & marriage
  October 29, 2019
• The widening schism
  October 28, 2019
• Adam, meet Eve
  October 25, 2019
• Coffee or tea?
  October 22, 2019
• My fellow Canucktitucks …
  October 19, 2019
• Be brave, be water, be ready
  October 17, 2019
• A saint for our times
  October 14, 2019
• The would pile
  October 12, 2019
• Puf the tragic dragon
  October 10, 2019
• Looking forward, cont.
  October 7, 2019
• Adam & Eve & science
  October 4, 2019
• Thought experiments
  October 3, 2019
• Looking ahead
  October 1, 2019
• Encratites & Apotactics
  September 28, 2019
• Amazonian proceedings
  September 27, 2019
• The cure for consumerism
  September 24, 2019
• Horn of plenty
  September 23, 2019
• Hippocratic conservatism
  September 19, 2019
• Austrian schoolboy
  September 17, 2019
• Philosophy: faster, please
  September 16, 2019
• On quaintness
  September 13, 2019
• All is well
  September 10, 2019
• How & when to apologize
  September 9, 2019
• Mugabe
  September 6, 2019
• Against “education”
  September 5, 2019
• Does age confer wisdom?
  September 4, 2019
• Down by the river
  August 30, 2019
• Back & forth
  August 27, 2019
• Enviro tyros
  August 16, 2019
• Saint Cassian pray for us
  August 13, 2019
• The prognosis
  August 12, 2019
• Touch the Earth
  August 7, 2019
• A call to revolt
  August 5, 2019
• August calmative
  August 1, 2019
• Ebullience
  July 29, 2019
• Breaking news now broken
  July 26, 2019
• Artificial spirits
  July 24, 2019
• The power of dreams
  July 20, 2019
• On a lump of coal
  July 19, 2019
• Omigod chronicles
  July 16, 2019
• Factory work
  July 15, 2019
• Full retro
  July 12, 2019
• The licentia chronicles
  July 9, 2019
• In praise of deference
  July 6, 2019
• Problems we don’t have
  July 3, 2019
• Dominion Day
  July 1, 2019
• The “smart” economy
  June 28, 2019
• Aside on law & order
  June 26, 2019
• Why read?
  June 25, 2019
• On something & nothing
  June 22, 2019
• Mishan impossible
  June 19, 2019
• Trucking
  June 18, 2019
• Creative outrage
  June 17, 2019
• Raptors defeat Warriors
  June 14, 2019
• Pontification
  June 13, 2019
• Long ago summer
  June 11, 2019
• On the means of propulsion
  June 10, 2019
• On the dark side
  May 25, 2019
• Driving
  May 21, 2019
• Depends what you mean by Is
  May 20, 2019
• Welcome to manhood
  May 18, 2019
• Again & again
  May 16, 2019
• Fifty years of solicitude
  May 13, 2019
• Slow cookery
  May 11, 2019
• Tough loves
  May 8, 2019
• Against sterility
  May 6, 2019
• In lovely blueness
  May 2, 2019
• Mayday
  May 1, 2019
• An example of usury
  April 30, 2019
• And who will mind the minders?
  April 26, 2019
• Saint Anthony’s
  April 23, 2019
• Incident report
  April 22, 2019
• Break
  April 13, 2019
• Esquesan
  April 10, 2019
• Spilt religion
  April 6, 2019
• Chronicles of collusion
  April 5, 2019
• Serial groping chronicles
  April 4, 2019
• Back to the land
  April 2, 2019
• Prima aprilis
  April 1, 2019
• Brexit Day cancelled
  March 29, 2019
• Notes from the underground
  March 26, 2019
• The cosmic duh
  March 23, 2019
• Kristin Lavransdatter
  March 21, 2019
• Decide, comrade
  March 19, 2019
• Strange but true
  March 14, 2019
• On heroic obedience
  March 11, 2019
• The freedom of Lent
  March 8, 2019
• Contra mundum
  March 5, 2019
• A rant for Saint David’s Day
  March 1, 2019
• A question
  February 26, 2019
• A thousand years later
  February 21, 2019
• Fame, fashion, future
  February 20, 2019
• National Bigotry Day
  February 15, 2019
• Manifesto of Faith
  February 12, 2019
• Inside the whale
  February 9, 2019
• The non-utopian Utopia
  February 8, 2019
• Hue & cry
  February 6, 2019
• On selfies
  February 5, 2019
• Fortieth day of Christmas
  February 2, 2019
• Fun with figures
  February 1, 2019
• Two items
  January 29, 2019
• Signs of the times revisited
  January 26, 2019
• An aside on beaks
  January 25, 2019
• Hail patron
  January 24, 2019
• The handkerchief tree
  January 22, 2019
• The de-cluttering chronicles
  January 19, 2019
• A minority view
  January 18, 2019
• Breaksit
  January 16, 2019
• The wisdom of sheep
  January 15, 2019
• Pipeline issues
  January 14, 2019
• Hail Mary (pass)
  January 12, 2019
• Freedom versus security
  January 10, 2019
• Restoring risk
  January 9, 2019
• Reflections on Thomism
  January 8, 2019
• Nanjinganthus
  January 7, 2019
• More populist than thou
  January 4, 2019
• Review & outlook
  January 3, 2019
• New Year’s FoMo
  December 31, 2018
• Power plays
  December 29, 2018
• Fake everything
  December 27, 2018
• Merry Christmas
  December 24, 2018
• Intelligent or otherwise
  December 22, 2018
• On scientific materialism
  December 19, 2018
• A draught
  December 18, 2018
• Chronicles of autopoiesis
  December 17, 2018
• Spaemann
  December 15, 2018
• Of eggs & baskets
  December 14, 2018
• The concealment
  December 13, 2018
• Vallis Hortensis
  December 12, 2018
• Nativity scenes
  December 11, 2018
• Devices of enslavery
  December 8, 2018
• Chronicles of outrage
  December 7, 2018
• Rolling home
  December 6, 2018
• Of mangles & battledores
  December 4, 2018
• Of riots & rioting
  December 3, 2018
• Venite post me
  November 30, 2018
• Compassion
  November 29, 2018
• Against empathy
  November 27, 2018
• Annals of convergence
  November 26, 2018
• Black Friday appeal
  November 23, 2018
• The echo
  November 21, 2018
• Alternative news
  November 20, 2018
• Instructions to educators
  November 16, 2018
• A problem in higher education
  November 15, 2018
• Talks with grandpa
  November 11, 2018
• Saturday rescript
  November 10, 2018
• Book merchandising latest
  November 9, 2018
• Within the Octave
  November 6, 2018
• The art of crazy-making
  November 5, 2018
• The poppy chronicles
  October 30, 2018
• Circling
  October 29, 2018
• On Robin Hood
  October 26, 2018
• Ta-ruth & consequences
  October 23, 2018
• Of tolerance & friendship
  October 22, 2018
• Saturday night thought
  October 20, 2018
• The road home
  October 16, 2018
• Hydraulic society
  October 15, 2018
• Attention
  October 12, 2018
• A Pareto curve
  October 5, 2018
• Against the news
  October 4, 2018
• Homiletic review
  October 2, 2018
• Nostalgia & recollection
  September 28, 2018
• Women beware women
  September 25, 2018
• Of hawks, naiads, & dwarves
  September 22, 2018
• Of straitjackets
  September 20, 2018
• Ember days
  September 18, 2018
• Judy
  September 17, 2018
• Quick review
  September 16, 2018
• Let’s be practical
  September 15, 2018
• To be men not destroyers
  September 14, 2018
• Of the cool & the cold
  September 11, 2018
• On beer consumption
  September 7, 2018
• News, news, news
  September 6, 2018
• Two items
  September 4, 2018
• Labour Day ramble
  September 3, 2018
• Il morso delle termiti
  September 1, 2018
• What to do?
  August 31, 2018
• For whom?
  August 29, 2018
• Trudopia & the Trudope
  August 28, 2018
• Twisted
  August 27, 2018
• Wang An-shih
  August 24, 2018
• Necessary angels
  August 21, 2018
• The demise of Blockbuster
  August 18, 2018
• The constant standard
  August 15, 2018
• On national unity
  August 14, 2018
• Naipaul
  August 13, 2018
• Death by technology
  August 10, 2018
• Chronicles of defunction
  August 9, 2018
• On killing people, cont.
  August 6, 2018
• Crime without punishment
  August 3, 2018
• On fake news
  August 1, 2018
• Mister McCarrick
  July 30, 2018
• Here on Earth
  July 27, 2018
• On explanations
  July 25, 2018
• Backward ho!
  July 24, 2018
• The horror chronicles
  July 23, 2018
• The vice of tolerance
  July 18, 2018
• The long sleep
  July 16, 2018
• Now playing
  July 13, 2018
• Jus gentium
  July 11, 2018
• Justin the groper
  July 7, 2018
• Defective shoppers
  July 6, 2018
• A nightmare
  July 5, 2018
• Chronicle of things to read
  July 2, 2018
• On incivility
  June 28, 2018
• Be prepared
  June 27, 2018
• On not working
  June 26, 2018
• Old engagements
  June 23, 2018
• Television review
  June 22, 2018
• On counting neurons
  June 20, 2018
• The white man’s burden
  June 19, 2018
• Sumer is icumen in
  June 16, 2018
• More backwardness
  June 15, 2018
• Trying to see wholes
  June 13, 2018
• The boat song
  June 12, 2018
• Jack Straw
  June 11, 2018
• Of sweet & sour
  June 8, 2018
• Have women peaked?
  June 6, 2018
• Waltzing
  June 4, 2018
• The loss
  May 26, 2018
• The referendum
  May 25, 2018
• Estimable men
  May 23, 2018
• Saint Dymphna pray for us
  May 22, 2018
• Bells & whistles
  May 18, 2018
• A health warning
  May 17, 2018
• On idle godliness
  May 16, 2018
• Missing day chronicles
  May 15, 2018
• The macaroni chronicles
  May 14, 2018
• A furious aside
  May 11, 2018
• Heaven, Hell, & Alder Hey
  May 9, 2018
• Of midges & men
  May 8, 2018
• Needlework
  May 5, 2018
• Tutti in coda (II)
  May 4, 2018
• Tutti in coda (I)
• You can run but you cannot hide
  May 3, 2018
• Respice finem
  May 2, 2018
• On brain damage
  May 1, 2018
• Instruction to gentle reader
  April 29, 2018
• “The child died”
  April 28, 2018
• Capacity crowds
  April 24, 2018
• It’s a boy!
  April 23, 2018
• Wha’ll be King but Cherlie?
  April 20, 2018
• Another sign of ye times
  April 19, 2018
• More happy
  April 17, 2018
• The vulnus
  April 16, 2018
• Fire & forget
  April 14, 2018
• On doing things
  April 13, 2018
• Questions, questions
  April 11, 2018
• The Zuckerberg chronicles
  April 10, 2018
• In dispraise of enlightenment
  April 7, 2018
• In praise of rigidity
  April 6, 2018
• More merciful than Jesus
  April 5, 2018
• The modern post-heretic
  April 3, 2018
• Of ducking & plucking
  April 2, 2018
• He. Is. Risen.
  March 31, 2018
• Good Friday
  March 30, 2018
• More media trash
  March 29, 2018
• Another
  March 28, 2018
• A thought in Holy Week
  March 26, 2018
• Note from a northern belfry
  March 23, 2018
• Gabriele Kuby
  March 22, 2018
• Permacultural aside
  March 20, 2018
• Things happen in threes
  March 16, 2018
• Talk about silence
  March 14, 2018
• The war on trust
  March 13, 2018
• On one news item
  March 10, 2018
• On the news
  March 9, 2018
• That’s funny
  March 8, 2018
• My privilege
  March 6, 2018
• Of waminals in themselves
  March 5, 2018
• Of joyful aloneness
  March 2, 2018
• I’ll be a Welshman
  March 1, 2018
• The see-ya chronicles
  February 23, 2018
• General instruction
  February 19, 2018
• As the world turns
  February 16, 2018
• O nach éisdeadh
  February 13, 2018
• How to do things
  February 12, 2018
• Jordan Peterson
  February 10, 2018
• Of Vatican cages
  February 9, 2018
• Should women have the vote?
  February 8, 2018
• Corned mutton hash
  February 7, 2018
• Motherhood & peoplekind
  February 6, 2018
• News to a foreign country
  February 5, 2018
• In God we don’t trust
  February 3, 2018
• Scared yet?
  February 1, 2018
• From Saginasty to Saginawesome
  January 31, 2018
• Chestnuts
  January 29, 2018
• The four word chronicles
  January 27, 2018
• On onus
  January 26, 2018
• The scandal of interiors
  January 25, 2018
• Slip-sliding away
  January 23, 2018
• Notes & topics
  January 22, 2018
• On learned ignorance
  January 20, 2018
• Pineapples or elephants?
  January 19, 2018
• Amazon flooding
  January 18, 2018
• Did you know?
  January 17, 2018
• Minimizing wages
  January 16, 2018
• Crypt currencies
  January 13, 2018
• Faith & leadership
  January 12, 2018
• Le Monde
  January 11, 2018
• A puzzlement
  January 10, 2018
• Fancy people in black
  January 9, 2018
• Empörungsgesellschaft
  January 8, 2018
• Denho
  January 6, 2018
• Twelfth Night: no surrender
  January 5, 2018
• Pay no attention
  January 2, 2018
• One year to another
  December 31, 2017
• A bit chilly
  December 30, 2017
• Saint Thomas of Canterbury
  December 29, 2017
• Flores martyrum
  December 28, 2017
• Mark that date
  December 27, 2017
• Protomartyr chronicles
  December 26, 2017
• Ad pastores
  December 25, 2017
• Saint Nicholas pray for us
  December 24, 2017
• Of Christmas past & Christmas future
  December 23, 2017
• The gift of obstinacy
  December 22, 2017
• Naughty & nice
  December 20, 2017
• The white Christmas blues
  December 19, 2017
• The laughter of hope
  December 18, 2017
• Special places
  December 16, 2017
• The two paths
  December 15, 2017
• On good sense
  December 14, 2017
• A rant
  December 13, 2017
• The havoc chronicles
  December 11, 2017
• On being polite
  December 9, 2017
• Jerusalem
  December 7, 2017
• A punch in the nose
  December 6, 2017
• Of infamy & shadows
  December 5, 2017
• Mere news
  December 4, 2017
• Advent MMXVII
  December 3, 2017
• Eros & Psyche
  December 2, 2017
• Hand-held device
  December 1, 2017
• Among the depenguined
  November 30, 2017
• The future isn’t over yet
  November 28, 2017
• Ferozsons Limited
  November 27, 2017
• Perylene Friday
  November 24, 2017
• Depenguinification
  November 22, 2017
• Two for the ages
  November 21, 2017
• On lacking respect
  November 17, 2017
• Scalfari & the phantastiacal
  November 16, 2017
• Something & Roy Moore
  November 14, 2017
• Near & far
  November 11, 2017
• A plea for selfishness
  November 10, 2017
• The kids today
  November 8, 2017
• On the 365th day
  November 7, 2017
• Death the real illusion
  November 4, 2017
• Hallowtide
  November 2, 2017
• Protestant Hallowe’en
  October 31, 2017
• Catholics
  October 28, 2017
• Protestants
  October 27, 2017
• Carnavalito
  October 25, 2017
• Coffee for the intellectuals
  October 24, 2017
• Make it new
  October 21, 2017
• Plain speaking
  October 20, 2017
• Ancient & modern
  October 19, 2017
• Of money & honey
  October 17, 2017
• Our Lady of Fatima
  October 13, 2017
• An embarrassment
  October 12, 2017
• Dr Frank Hutson Gregory
  October 11, 2017
• Good is prolific
  October 10, 2017
• Thanksgiving
  October 9, 2017
• At sea
  October 7, 2017
• About time
  October 5, 2017
• Viva el Rey
  October 4, 2017
• Against closure
  October 3, 2017
• Fecunda ratis
  September 30, 2017
• Five years & no concessions
  September 29, 2017
• On high horses
  September 27, 2017
• On the “Correctio filialis”
  September 26, 2017
• A good shove
  September 21, 2017
• The push-back chronicles
  September 19, 2017
• Politics of the risible
  September 18, 2017
• The long march
  September 15, 2017
• The strait, and narrow
  September 12, 2017
• Timor mortis
  September 9, 2017
• Of providence & order
  September 8, 2017
• On pushing back
  September 7, 2017
• Calcutta, my love
  September 6, 2017
• A memoir
  September 5, 2017
• Among the soft-bodied eight-limbed molluscs
  September 1, 2017
• Include me in
  August 30, 2017
• Harvey
  August 29, 2017
• Of rich & poor
  August 28, 2017
• War, famine, plague, sedition
  August 26, 2017
• Bring back liberals
  August 25, 2017
• The knot
  August 24, 2017
• The grandstand chronicles
  August 23, 2017
• Abenomics
  August 22, 2017
• Portent of doom
  August 21, 2017
• The longer game
  August 19, 2017
• How to win the civil war
  August 18, 2017
• Of dog-whistles & duck calls
  August 17, 2017
• The Google archipelago
  August 16, 2017
• Santa Maria Assunta
  August 15, 2017
• Charlottesville
  August 14, 2017
• Mysterious West
  August 12, 2017
• Notes from the sheepfold
  August 11, 2017
• Oh no not Korea again
  August 10, 2017
• Combat
  August 9, 2017
• Summer reading
  August 8, 2017
• On mercy mild
  August 4, 2017
• On breaking the law
  August 2, 2017
• Rowing to Paradise
  August 1, 2017
• What goes up
  July 29, 2017
• The medical advisor
  July 28, 2017
• Indopakladesh at seventy
  July 27, 2017
• An anti-whateverist expostulation
  July 26, 2017
• Mock chicken
  July 25, 2017
• On the D-word
  July 24, 2017
• An argument against arguing
  July 22, 2017
• Black-line
  July 21, 2017
• The dispossessed
  July 19, 2017
• On science
  July 18, 2017
• A thought for Bastille Day
  July 14, 2017
• An aside on acting
  July 12, 2017
• That Brague again
  July 11, 2017
• Drawing to conclusions
  July 10, 2017
• Culture of fear
  July 8, 2017
• False humility
  July 7, 2017
• Some attitudinizing
  July 5, 2017
• Without hair, without skin
  July 3, 2017
• Happy Dominion Day!
  July 1, 2017
• On political pugilism
  June 30, 2017
• The age of smear
  June 29, 2017
• Big red & shiny
  June 28, 2017
• The eye is in the beholder
  June 27, 2017
• Hoo sez?
  June 26, 2017
• Meditation on an electric lamp
  June 23, 2017
• The ha! chronicles
  June 21, 2017
• Is Realism realistic?
  June 20, 2017
• No cure for a broken heart
  June 19, 2017
• King Kohl
  June 17, 2017
• Against innovation
  June 16, 2017
• Prophets without honour
  June 14, 2017
• Avoiding traps
  June 13, 2017
• Debating point
  June 10, 2017
• The youff have spoken
  June 9, 2017
• Better homes & gardens
  June 7, 2017
• D Day
  June 6, 2017
• Of idle lingering
  June 5, 2017
• On the road
  May 28, 2017
• Of back-ups & throwbacks
  May 27, 2017
• Vietnam revisited
  May 25, 2017
• On pageantry & apocalypse
  May 24, 2017
• The movie
  May 23, 2017
• Just one good smack
  May 22, 2017
• Sweetness & light
  May 18, 2017
• Of Adam & Eve
  May 16, 2017
• Dust
  May 15, 2017
• Of prophecy & prognostication
  May 13, 2017
• In praise of anarchy
  May 11, 2017
• On the speed of thought
  May 10, 2017
• Existentialism
  May 8, 2017
• How to be old
  May 5, 2017
• Dairy
  May 4, 2017
• Misuse of language
  May 3, 2017
• Villagers & pillagers
  May 2, 2017
• Against facts
  May 1, 2017
• Chronicles of distraction
  April 28, 2017
• A public danger
  April 26, 2017
• Reductio ad mysterium
  April 25, 2017
• Among the new Infidels
  April 22, 2017
• Insolence towards the Zeitgeist
  April 20, 2017
• Sex & the single Dogan
  April 19, 2017
• On writing Idleposts
  April 18, 2017
• On seeking shelter
  April 11, 2017
• Vimy
  April 10, 2017
• Yesterday’s news
  April 7, 2017
• War & peace
  April 6, 2017
• Demography & destiny chronicles
  April 5, 2017
• Custody of the emotions
  April 4, 2017
• Passiontide
  April 2, 2017
• April foolishness
  April 1, 2017
• In praise of half-measures
  March 31, 2017
• Excuses, excuses
  March 30, 2017
• Of third ways
  March 27, 2017
• Mother of God
  March 25, 2017
• Per impossibile chronicles
  March 24, 2017
• The rest is silence
  March 22, 2017
• Pears
  March 21, 2017
• A giant rabbit
  March 20, 2017
• The dogwhistle chronicles
  March 17, 2017
• Justicialismo
  March 16, 2017
• Benzedrine options
  March 15, 2017
• You are not alone …
  March 14, 2017
• Empty threats
  March 11, 2017
• Think environmentally
  March 10, 2017
• Middlebury
  March 9, 2017
• Deep state
  March 7, 2017
• Nothingburgers
  March 4, 2017
• On beautiful women
  March 3, 2017
• I ask you
  March 2, 2017
• In cinere et cilicio
  March 1, 2017
• A kvetch writes
  February 28, 2017
• Maybe, or not
  February 27, 2017
• The creation of Adam
  February 24, 2017
• Fake this, fake that
  February 23, 2017
• A direction for tramps
  February 21, 2017
• On statutory holidays
  February 20, 2017
• Aphorisms for Saturday
  February 18, 2017
• Up against the pipes
  February 17, 2017
• The no-brainer chronicles
  February 16, 2017
• In case you were wondering
  February 15, 2017
• Jim & Florrie
  February 14, 2017
• Brain disease
  February 13, 2017
• Septuagesima
  February 12, 2017
• Milady Sue K.
  February 10, 2017
• My life in the movies
  February 9, 2017
• Table manners
  February 8, 2017
• The Bertie conversions
  February 7, 2017
• Of close-run things
  February 6, 2017
• Granny dumping
  February 5, 2017
• On knocking
  February 3, 2017
• Extra extra
  January 31, 2017
• Chronicles of frothing hysteria
  January 30, 2017
• Schall at eighty-nine
  January 28, 2017
• Of numbers & mendacity
  January 27, 2017
• What is a reactionary?
  January 26, 2017
• Escolios in Bogotá
  January 24, 2017
• Orpheus descending
  January 23, 2017
• The morning after the night before
  January 21, 2017
• On victory
  January 20, 2017
• Roll up, roll up!
  January 17, 2017
• Darning & darnation
  January 16, 2017
• Yachting news
  January 14, 2017
• A settled science
  January 12, 2017
• Upmarket & down
  January 11, 2017
• Light reading
  January 10, 2017
• Crooked timber chronicles
  January 7, 2017
• The downside of killing people
  January 6, 2017
• Underground Europe
  January 4, 2017
• Thomas Sowell
  January 3, 2017
• On the worthlessness of novels
  January 2, 2017
• Check out
  December 24, 2016
• Into the envious tangle
  December 23, 2016
• On the meaning of Christmas
  December 22, 2016
• Recovery
  December 20, 2016
• Some contemporary simplisme
  December 19, 2016
• On canaries in mines
  December 17, 2016
• On baloney
  December 16, 2016
• Yak weather
  December 15, 2016
• Improvements
  December 14, 2016
• The road we know
  December 13, 2016
• Problems with rejoicing (solved)
  December 11, 2016
• Saturday night thought
  December 10, 2016
• Before the beginning
  December 8, 2016
• In convertendo
  December 7, 2016
• Encore une fois
  December 6, 2016
• On a question of taste
  December 5, 2016
• On the speed of mercy
  December 3, 2016
• A path will emerge
  December 2, 2016
• In defence of economic backwardness
  December 1, 2016
• Funny old world chronicles
  November 30, 2016
• On the transience of things
  November 29, 2016
• Advent Sunday
  November 27, 2016
• Pass the cigars
  November 26, 2016
• On rigidity
  November 25, 2016
• Jour de l’action de grâce américain
  November 24, 2016
• That smile
  November 22, 2016
• Cry havoc, &c
  November 21, 2016
• First snow
  November 20, 2016
• On the question of tactics
  November 19, 2016
• Herman Goodden
  November 18, 2016
• A wonderworker
  November 17, 2016
• On the human abacus
  November 15, 2016
• Norham Castle (sunrise)
  November 14, 2016
• Further instructions
  November 12, 2016
• Remembrance Day
  November 11, 2016
• Postmortem
  November 10, 2016
• Crowds & powers
  November 8, 2016
• Sailing past Byzantium
  November 7, 2016
• Last days of mankind
  November 6, 2016
• Exhibitions at a picture
  November 4, 2016
• Rock bottom defined
  November 3, 2016
• Of a Hallowe’en in Sweden
  November 1, 2016
• Norcia again
  October 31, 2016
• Saints in the mists of antiquity
  October 28, 2016
• Short item
  October 27, 2016
• Epistolary arts
  October 26, 2016
• On life & death
  October 25, 2016
• The invalid gourmand
  October 24, 2016
• What & how to read
  October 22, 2016
• Irreducibles
  October 21, 2016
• Don’t think twice
  October 20, 2016
• All about Nothing
  October 19, 2016
• An anti-globalist tirade
  October 18, 2016
• Patience
  October 17, 2016
• Hard rain chronicles
  October 14, 2016
• A good & righteous man
  October 13, 2016
• A Grician implicature
  October 12, 2016
• Magnificent men
  October 11, 2016
• How strange
  October 9, 2016
• Anchovy sandwiches
  October 7, 2016
• Towards silence
  October 6, 2016
• A thought for Hierotheos Day
  October 4, 2016
• Gender benders
  October 3, 2016
• Halls of memory
  October 1, 2016
• Gentle reminder
  September 29, 2016
• Fight night
  September 27, 2016
• Back to metaphysics
  September 23, 2016
• On discipline
  September 22, 2016
• The addict
  September 20, 2016
• Unfinished conversations
  September 19, 2016
• Addendum on wrong places
  September 17, 2016
• Blessings in disguise
  September 16, 2016
• Buenos Aires directive
  September 15, 2016
• On the need to remain cheerful
  September 14, 2016
• Creative misanthropy
  September 13, 2016
• Church bulletin
  September 12, 2016
• Fifteen years
  September 10, 2016
• More on beetles
  September 9, 2016
• The stag party
  September 8, 2016
• Grande dame
  September 6, 2016
• The wake-up call
  September 5, 2016
• On leadership
  September 3, 2016
• Trump l’oeil
  September 2, 2016
• The slime chronicles
  September 1, 2016
• Swimwear issue
  August 30, 2016
• The common man
  August 29, 2016
• On discernment
  August 26, 2016
• The ground beneath her feet
  August 25, 2016
• Positive reinforcement
  August 24, 2016
• Movers versus Shakers
  August 23, 2016
• Beyond ornithology
  August 21, 2016
• Eorum culpa
  August 20, 2016
• Salmon from a tin
  August 19, 2016
• Democrazy
  August 18, 2016
• The right tool
  August 17, 2016
• De anima
  August 16, 2016
• The why-I-am-not chronicles
  August 15, 2016
• Choose life
  August 14, 2016
• Olympic special
  August 12, 2016
• Here is a title
  August 11, 2016
• The poor wealthy
  August 10, 2016
• Voting against elections
  August 9, 2016
• Organized religion
  August 8, 2016
• Zombie theories
  August 6, 2016
• Chronicles of torment, &c
  August 5, 2016
• Of bombs and bulldozers
  August 3, 2016
• Ye cloude of unknowyng
  August 2, 2016
• Note for August civic holiday
  August 1, 2016
• On crime & punishment & wrath
  July 30, 2016
• Deus lo vult
  July 29, 2016
• Conventions
  July 28, 2016
• Confronting evil with joss sticks
  July 27, 2016
• The joy of hatred
  July 26, 2016
• How to breed monsters
  July 25, 2016
• Pictures at an exhibition
  July 23, 2016
• Why no one writes books any more
  July 22, 2016
• How to save the environment
  July 20, 2016
• All the bells are ringing
  July 19, 2016
• Why our problems are insoluble
  July 18, 2016
• Shot
  July 16, 2016
• Nasty in Nice
  July 15, 2016
• Books for a dollar
  July 14, 2016
• Continuity
  July 13, 2016
• Parliament of the three ages
  July 12, 2016
• The good Samaritan
  July 10, 2016
• Bread, cheese, & ale
  July 8, 2016
• The Chilcot Report
  July 7, 2016
• The magnanimous gesture
  July 6, 2016
• With Layard to Ninevah
  July 5, 2016
• Un canadien errant
  July 1, 2016
• An artist is a solitary
  June 30, 2016
• Bonnie & Clyde
  June 29, 2016
• The secret government
  June 28, 2016
• The in & the out of it
  June 25, 2016
• Brexit
  June 24, 2016
• On nature
  June 22, 2016
• When pushy meets touchy
  June 21, 2016
• Five stars
  June 20, 2016
• Marriage à-la-mode
  June 19, 2016
• The week in review
  June 18, 2016
• Consider the alternatives
  June 17, 2016
• Fashion statement
  June 16, 2016
• Showing grandma around
  June 15, 2016
• Orlando
  June 14, 2016
• Halieuticks
  June 13, 2016
• Chronicles of expectoration
  June 11, 2016
• Mistah Kurtz — he dead
  June 10, 2016
• Disputed question
  June 8, 2016
• The decline of requirements
  June 7, 2016
• The greatest?
  June 6, 2016
• Artes serviles
  June 4, 2016
• Of mercy & forgiveness
  June 2, 2016
• Amour-propre
  June 1, 2016
• Phlogiston
  May 31, 2016
• Teach the controversy
  May 29, 2016
• Mysterious ways
  May 28, 2016
• Conservative indifference
  May 27, 2016
• Among the leaves the small birds sing
  May 25, 2016
• On liberal education
  May 24, 2016
• High Doganate confidential
  May 22, 2016
• In patience to abide
  May 19, 2016
• Buchanan yes & no
  May 18, 2016
• The talkpast
  May 17, 2016
• Creative destruction
  May 16, 2016
• A thought
  May 14, 2016
• Peace at last
  May 13, 2016
• Locker room reflections
  May 12, 2016
• General recovery
  May 11, 2016
• Recovering feudalism
  May 9, 2016
• Incendiary observations
  May 7, 2016
• Of a candle
  May 6, 2016
• Ugly & truly ugly
  May 5, 2016
• Hidden things
  May 4, 2016
• Titles
  May 3, 2016
• Mind over matter
  May 2, 2016
• Suppressing the erotic
  April 30, 2016
• Saint’s day
  April 29, 2016
• Wednesday morning
  April 27, 2016
• Pied-de-vent
  April 26, 2016
• Wattle-and-daub
  April 25, 2016
• Four centuries later
  April 23, 2016
• Cervantes
  April 22, 2016
• Morning thoughts
  April 21, 2016
• Hardwater tea
  April 20, 2016
• Marginalia
  April 19, 2016
• The flittermouse chronicles
  April 16, 2016
• Rumination
  April 15, 2016
• Sin makes us sad
  April 14, 2016
• Trumping along
  April 12, 2016
• The new idealism
  April 11, 2016
• Amoris Laetitia
  April 9, 2016
• Panama papers
  April 7, 2016
• Spiritual asthenia
  April 6, 2016
• Mother Angelica
  April 5, 2016
• The unknown good
  April 4, 2016
• Christ hither & away
  March 25, 2016
• The coming days
  March 19, 2016
• Stillness within the panic
  March 18, 2016
• Patricius
  March 17, 2016
• Super endless Tuesday
  March 16, 2016
• Novels, novels
  March 15, 2016
• Benedictine “option”
  March 14, 2016
• All talk
  March 12, 2016
• Good & useless
  March 11, 2016
• The hours of folly
  March 10, 2016
• Gardez l’eau
  March 9, 2016
• The banality of evil
  March 7, 2016
• Killing people
  March 6, 2016
• Maladroit in Detroit
  March 4, 2016
• It’s like skating
  March 3, 2016
• Insuperable Tuesday
  March 1, 2016
• Old wine in old bottles
  February 29, 2016
• Book of Eccles
  February 27, 2016
• A safe space
  February 26, 2016
• On desecration
  February 24, 2016
• Don’t leave
  February 21, 2016
• The tale of Mattie
  February 19, 2016
• Against masochism
  February 18, 2016
• Out with you
  February 17, 2016
• Lent makes us smarter
  February 16, 2016
• Scalia
  February 15, 2016
• Against scheduling
  February 13, 2016
• Gödel & Lemaître
  February 12, 2016
• Gravity waves
  February 11, 2016
• On leaving town
  February 10, 2016
• The Fire Monkey chronicles
  February 8, 2016
• Resting bitch face
  February 6, 2016
• Lawlessness
  February 5, 2016
• Backhand compliment
  February 4, 2016
• The neoconical hat
  February 3, 2016
• Famiglia
  February 1, 2016
• Signs of the times
  January 30, 2016
• Good one
  January 29, 2016
• Honi soit qui mal y pense
  January 28, 2016
• On public statuary
  January 27, 2016
• Meditation on a potato
  January 26, 2016
• The yachtsman
  January 25, 2016
• Snow in New York
  January 23, 2016
• Snow in Washington
  January 22, 2016
• On political lowness
  January 21, 2016
• Comfort food
  January 20, 2016
• Nasty surprises
  January 19, 2016
• Interesting if true
  January 18, 2016
• Pray for Taiwan
  January 16, 2016
• Lost tunnels
  January 15, 2016
• Death in pearls
  January 14, 2016
• The pesticide chronicles
  January 13, 2016
• Cucarachas
  January 12, 2016
• George Jonas
  January 11, 2016
• Earthquake planning
  January 9, 2016
• On waminals
  January 8, 2016
• An axiom
  January 7, 2016
• Forty years on
  January 6, 2016
• Merry
  January 5, 2016
• The market for newes
  January 4, 2016
• On grouseness
  January 2, 2016
• The Levée
  January 1, 2016
• Some culinary answers
  December 31, 2015
• A culinary quiz
  December 30, 2015
• Compulsory mental illness
  December 29, 2015
• Ever the optimist
  December 28, 2015
• Merry Christmas
  December 23, 2015
• Death to Tinker Bell
  December 22, 2015
• On fact-checking
  December 21, 2015
• Whimper wants a bang
  December 19, 2015
• Notes from the resistance
  December 18, 2015
• O come, Emmanuel
  December 17, 2015
• Presidential endorsement
  December 16, 2015
• Not all there
  December 15, 2015
• The young people
  December 14, 2015
• A tale of two horrors
  December 12, 2015
• On welcoming Muslims
  December 11, 2015
• The idea of hummingbirds
  December 10, 2015
• Auden
  December 9, 2015
• Tota pulchra es
  December 8, 2015
• Age before booty
  December 7, 2015
• Saint Sabbas
  December 5, 2015
• The aquatic ape
  December 4, 2015
• On San Bernardino
  December 3, 2015
• Sumptuariae leges
  December 2, 2015
• Latest from the death cult
  December 1, 2015
• The cruck of our freedom
  November 30, 2015
• More than ever now or never
  November 28, 2015
• Present in the past
  November 27, 2015
• Some ethic profiling
  November 26, 2015
• Wars formerly by proxy
  November 25, 2015
• The mess through history
  November 24, 2015
• The Wraith
  November 23, 2015
• Make perfect thy will
  November 21, 2015
• No-go & safe zones
  November 20, 2015
• Silence of the lambs
  November 19, 2015
• Mewling & the lie
  November 18, 2015
• Blow blow thou winter wind
  November 17, 2015
• On candlelight vigils
  November 16, 2015
• Paris in the fall
  November 14, 2015
• The life of Bree-an
  November 13, 2015
• Death of a smoker
  November 12, 2015
• Armistice Day
  November 11, 2015
• Democracy versus God
  November 10, 2015
• On vexation
  November 9, 2015
• Fleeting & endured
  November 7, 2015
• The self-defeaters
  November 6, 2015
• Penny for the old Guy
  November 5, 2015
• Whose poor?
  November 4, 2015
• Of polls & proggies
  November 3, 2015
• On true mercy
  November 2, 2015
• On four hundred million
  October 30, 2015
• Ave maris stella
  October 29, 2015
• Non possumus
  October 28, 2015
• Hae nobis propriae sedes
  October 27, 2015
• Wrong how?
  October 26, 2015
• Questions for ye bishops
  October 24, 2015
• Vigilate & orate
  October 23, 2015
• The universal tourist
  October 22, 2015
• Drinking note
  October 21, 2015
• The triumph of drivel
  October 20, 2015
• Game on
  October 19, 2015
• Shipshape & Bristol fashion
  October 17, 2015
• Housekeeping
  October 16, 2015
• Making a lío
  October 15, 2015
• Year of clemency
  October 14, 2015
• Playboy
  October 13, 2015
• Pastoral accompaniment
  October 9, 2015
• Seen & unseen
  October 8, 2015
• Lepanto
  October 7, 2015
• Do not inhale
  October 6, 2015
• After strange gods
  October 5, 2015
• Fact & mystery
  October 4, 2015
• The unpragmatic agenda
  October 3, 2015
• On politicians
  October 2, 2015
• The new world order
  October 1, 2015
• Line items
  September 30, 2015
• Michaelmas
  September 29, 2015
• Whitewash
  September 28, 2015
• Blood moon
  September 27, 2015
• On a revivalist note
  September 26, 2015
• Our Lady of Ransom
  September 25, 2015
• The hunting of snark
  September 24, 2015
• Plain speaking
  September 23, 2015
• Towards increased understanding
  September 22, 2015
• Mass in the mass
  September 21, 2015
• Christ does not pander
  September 20, 2015
• On despair
  September 19, 2015
• Doing usury backwards
  September 18, 2015
• Flying by
  September 17, 2015
• A puzzle
  September 16, 2015
• On the other hand
  September 15, 2015
• Many pockes on many houses
  September 14, 2015
• Misrepresentations
  September 13, 2015
• Retractions
  September 12, 2015
• Stained glass
  September 11, 2015
• Per crucem ad lucem
  September 10, 2015
• Chronicles of nullity
  September 9, 2015
• Jack & Jill, over the hill
  September 8, 2015
• Our gracious Queen
  September 7, 2015
• A funeral for Sunday
  September 6, 2015
• On fear
  September 5, 2015
• A sea of troubles
  September 4, 2015
• Le rouge et le noir
  September 3, 2015
• Lentils
  September 2, 2015
• Looking up
  September 1, 2015
• On the Daesh strategy
  August 31, 2015
• Spiritu ambulate
  August 30, 2015
• The duh chronicles
  August 29, 2015
• Phenotypic plasticity
  August 28, 2015
• Moynihan’s scissors today
  August 27, 2015
• How to raise children
  August 26, 2015
• Clabber
  August 25, 2015
• The roundest wheel
  August 24, 2015
• The longest spoon
  August 23, 2015
• The highest tech
  August 22, 2015
• Sister lived long enough
  August 21, 2015
• Pigeon digest
  August 20, 2015
• A Trifluvian philosopher
  August 19, 2015
• Know-nothingism
  August 18, 2015
• Instructions to the housewife
  August 17, 2015
• Rendering time
  August 16, 2015
• Mater Dei
  August 15, 2015
• A tale of origins & renewal
  August 14, 2015
• In but not of
  August 13, 2015
• Contra mundum
  August 12, 2015
• Of a figure on Mars
  August 11, 2015
• Household hints
  August 10, 2015
• Ephphetha
  August 9, 2015
• The Donald
  August 8, 2015
• Sweet till seventeen
  August 7, 2015
• Transfiguration
  August 6, 2015
• Country music
  August 5, 2015
• The Devil adores a vacuum
  August 4, 2015
• Zomia
  August 3, 2015
• The prayer of the Publican
  August 2, 2015
• Lionizing
  August 1, 2015
• Hybrid warfare
  July 31, 2015
• More enthusiasm for GMOs
  July 30, 2015
• Trying to understand Lu Yu
  July 29, 2015
• Liturgy fairies
  July 28, 2015
• As the world turns
  July 27, 2015
• In no strange land
  July 26, 2015
• Chronicles of Gadara
  July 25, 2015
• Ninety-seven percenters
  July 24, 2015
• Little Tibet in Parkdale
  July 23, 2015
• The daily forty-five
  July 22, 2015
• On the other hand
  July 21, 2015
• A new model for society
  July 20, 2015
• Strait up
  July 19, 2015
• Darjeeling tea
  July 18, 2015
• Authority
  July 17, 2015
• Towards wisdom
  July 16, 2015
• Live not by lies
  July 15, 2015
• Creative self-loathing
  July 14, 2015
• Benedict options
  July 13, 2015
• Omnes gentes
  July 12, 2015
• Cat’s cradle
  July 11, 2015
• The avian gourmand
  July 10, 2015
• Visiting Pluto
  July 9, 2015
• The family & the sludge
  July 8, 2015
• Succedaneanism
  July 7, 2015
• Political purposes
  July 6, 2015
• The lies that bind
  July 5, 2015
• Oxi-moron is a bad pun
  July 4, 2015
• Analects of confusion
  July 3, 2015
• Jurisimprudence
  July 2, 2015
• Beautiful Dominion
  July 1, 2015
• Shades of homer
  June 30, 2015
• Fools
  June 29, 2015
• Fraternal charity
  June 28, 2015
• Drawing a comparison
  June 27, 2015
• The goose procession
  June 26, 2015
• Shock effects
  June 25, 2015
• Opposite Christmas
  June 24, 2015
• Aside on the discharges
  June 23, 2015
• Air conditioning
  June 22, 2015
• Dominus illuminatio mea
  June 21, 2015
• Sunlight on the vines
  June 20, 2015
• Five thousand max
  June 19, 2015
• Henotheism
  June 18, 2015
• Laudato si’
  June 17, 2015
• It’s like this (chronicles)
  June 16, 2015
• What must we do?
  June 15, 2015
• God’s final word
  June 14, 2015
• Rounded with a sleepe
  June 13, 2015
• The nice & the good
  June 12, 2015
• Elevated discourse
  June 11, 2015
• Nice & nasty
  June 10, 2015
• The ultimate bore
  June 9, 2015
• Among dragons & damsels
  June 8, 2015
• Comfort against tribulation
  June 1, 2015
• Holy Trinity
  May 31, 2015
• Obedience to tradition
  May 30, 2015
• Wilhelm Roepke
  May 29, 2015
• The ground sloth
  May 28, 2015
• Latest automations
  May 27, 2015
• Apostle to Rome
  May 26, 2015
• De-metrification
  May 25, 2015
• Pentecost
  May 24, 2015
• Aer lingus
  May 23, 2015
• Against bombing
  May 22, 2015
• Palmyra
  May 21, 2015
• Making war better
  May 20, 2015
• Ramadi
  May 19, 2015
• Fudge
  May 18, 2015
• Time’s arrow, time’s cycle
  May 17, 2015
• Losing the appearances
  May 16, 2015
• The Vimy problem
  May 15, 2015
• In jubilatione
  May 14, 2015
• A whole mind
  May 13, 2015
• Of a maple sapling
  May 12, 2015
• Dark gentleman of the Sonnets
  May 11, 2015
• Ask the women
  May 10, 2015
• Chronicles of discardment
  May 9, 2015
• Apeldoorn
  May 8, 2015
• Electioneering
  May 7, 2015
• Against the simpletons
  May 6, 2015
• The mercy game
  May 5, 2015
• Marketplace of ideas
  May 4, 2015
• It’s a girl
  May 3, 2015
• Oyster sauce chronicles
  May 2, 2015
• Down lunchpails
  May 1, 2015
• Saint Catherine of Siena
  April 30, 2015
• Chronology
  April 29, 2015
• Self-love & stupidity
  April 28, 2015
• Saint Peter Canisius
  April 27, 2015
• Jubilate Sunday
  April 26, 2015
• Armenians
  April 25, 2015
• A sister
  April 24, 2015
• Saint George
  April 23, 2015
• Propos
  April 22, 2015
• The valour deficit
  April 21, 2015
• Camp of saints
  April 20, 2015
• A good shepherd
  April 19, 2015
• The Ezekiel airship
  April 18, 2015
• The Wright brothers
  April 17, 2015
• Terror birds
  April 16, 2015
• A yarn
  April 15, 2015
• Hunwickean in Parkdale
  April 14, 2015
• Model T
  April 13, 2015
• Low Sunday
  April 12, 2015
• Of books & men
  April 11, 2015
• Even Better Friday
  April 10, 2015
• FAQ
  April 9, 2015
• Genesis applied
  April 8, 2015
• Our redneck heritage
  April 7, 2015
• Easter Monday
  April 6, 2015
• Venite
  April 5, 2015
• Holy Saturday
  April 4, 2015
• Good Friday
  April 3, 2015
• Maundy Thursday
  April 2, 2015
• The false note
  April 1, 2015
• On wrath
  March 31, 2015
• Sinite illam
  March 30, 2015
• Gates of Jerusalem
  March 29, 2015
• Q&A
  March 28, 2015
• Litera scripta manet
  March 27, 2015
• Eight minutes
  March 26, 2015
• The Annunciation
  March 25, 2015
• The honest tyrant
  March 24, 2015
• Dunciad
  March 23, 2015
• Passiontide
  March 22, 2015
• Father Wallace
  March 21, 2015
• More, there is more
  March 20, 2015
• Saint Joseph
  March 19, 2015
• Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
  March 18, 2015
• Flatman rising
  March 17, 2015
• True patriot love, disentangled
  March 16, 2015
• Laetare Sunday
  March 15, 2015
• External combustion
  March 14, 2015
• Narrow-gauge railways
  March 13, 2015
• To be a viator
  March 12, 2015
• Idleposting 101
  March 11, 2015
• A century
  March 10, 2015
• Unknown fields
  March 9, 2015
• Casting out devils
  March 8, 2015
• Nimrud
  March 7, 2015
• Less is more
  March 6, 2015
• Mission creep
  March 5, 2015
• Parrhesia
  March 4, 2015
• Cutting down
  March 3, 2015
• The double dative chronicles
  March 2, 2015
• Feast of Dafydd
  March 1, 2015
• Digby chicks
  February 28, 2015
• Pray for a slow death
  February 27, 2015
• Lili Kraus
  February 26, 2015
• Tips
  February 25, 2015
• Primum non nocere
  February 24, 2015
• On legitimate government
  February 23, 2015
• A voice from the chorus
  February 22, 2015
• Philatelic note
  February 21, 2015
• The fat chance chronicles
  February 20, 2015
• Perspective
  February 19, 2015
• An imposition
  February 18, 2015
• Martyrdom revolved
  February 17, 2015
• Sundown & after
  February 16, 2015
• That the blind shall see
  February 15, 2015
• Valentines
  February 14, 2015
• Mercy vans
  February 13, 2015
• The right to choose evil
  February 12, 2015
• Yachting news
  February 11, 2015
• The original Falstaff
  February 10, 2015
• And another
  February 9, 2015
• Another day
  February 8, 2015
• The insanity offence
  February 7, 2015
• How to perform miracles
  February 6, 2015
• The cull
  February 5, 2015
• Some free advice
  February 4, 2015
• The fish commands it
  February 3, 2015
• Candlemas
  February 2, 2015
• Unto this last
  February 1, 2015
• For a Godly materialism
  January 31, 2015
• Mysterium fidei
  January 30, 2015
• Of halcyon nests
  January 29, 2015
• The ransomer
  January 28, 2015
• Deflationary asides
  January 27, 2015
• 101 household uses
  January 26, 2015
• Be it done
  January 25, 2015
• To arms
  January 24, 2015
• Richard Lubbock
  January 23, 2015
• Marching to nowhere
  January 22, 2015
• Bunnies
  January 21, 2015
• Arrows
  January 20, 2015
• Teaching Shakespeare
  January 19, 2015
• A buzzard
  January 18, 2015
• Into the desert
  January 17, 2015
• Religio pacis
  January 16, 2015
• Hermits & artists
  January 15, 2015
• Kosher phones
  January 14, 2015
• Daily & Sundays
  January 13, 2015
• La mort des cathédrales
  January 12, 2015
• Sancta Familia
  January 11, 2015
• Honorifics
  January 10, 2015
• La guerre, yes sir
  January 9, 2015
• Dionysien aside
  January 8, 2015
• Be not goaded
  January 7, 2015
• Boar’s head & wassail
  January 5, 2015
• And the warld kent Him na
  January 4, 2015
• Lords a-leaping
  January 3, 2015
• The world of our dreams
  January 2, 2015
• Crabbed age & youff
  January 1, 2015
• Cor ad cor loquitur
  December 31, 2014
• Six geese a-laying
  December 30, 2014
• Vertu engendred
  December 29, 2014
• Shabkar revisited
  December 27, 2014
• Feast of Stephen
  December 26, 2014
• On the new orthodoxy
  December 25, 2014
• A sign
  December 24, 2014
• Kyrie
  December 23, 2014
• Dating Christmas
  December 22, 2014
• Peter Geach
  December 21, 2014
• In those days
  December 20, 2014
• Ten Editions
  December 19, 2014
• O Adonai
  December 18, 2014
• Somewhat feline
  December 17, 2014
• Star dust
  December 16, 2014
• The blind eye
  December 15, 2014
• Help is on the way
  December 14, 2014
• Nay, nay
  December 13, 2014
• Thirteenthing China
  December 12, 2014
• The gimcrack gourmand
  December 11, 2014
• Pests of this kind
  December 9, 2014
• Sinless Mary
  December 8, 2014
• Identity theft
  December 6, 2014
• Nuremberg revised
  December 5, 2014
• Sexes & saxes
  December 3, 2014
• On parliamentary reform
  December 2, 2014
• Vi Vil Vinne
  November 29, 2014
• On managing
  November 22, 2014
• Wrath revisited
  November 16, 2014
• 11/11
  November 11, 2014
• The people have spoken
  November 5, 2014
• All the souls
  November 2, 2014
• The handcart chronicles
  October 27, 2014
• Quietly from Rome
  October 25, 2014
• Ottawa in the news
  October 23, 2014
• Postscriptum
  October 15, 2014
• Something to declare
  October 14, 2014
• Whom to thank?
  October 13, 2014
• Kojo no tsuki
  October 11, 2014
• Synod on the family
  October 6, 2014
• Hosers
  October 4, 2014
• The necessary angel
  September 29, 2014
• The world in small
  September 25, 2014
• The Braveheart chronicles
  September 19, 2014
• Morbid happiness
  September 15, 2014
• Scot-la-la-land
  September 12, 2014
• Tumult
  September 8, 2014
• The air show
  September 3, 2014
• Labour Day
  September 1, 2014
• Watch this space
  August 1, 2014
• On news judgement
  July 22, 2014
• News from Ninevah
  July 20, 2014
• On the road
  July 17, 2014
• Word for the day
  July 16, 2014
• Bring me my bow
  July 15, 2014
• Quas primas
  July 7, 2014
• Fourth of July
  July 4, 2014
• A test
  July 2, 2014
• Note to readers
  July 1, 2014
• Latest from Iraq
  June 23, 2014
• The axeman
  June 17, 2014
• Promoting intolerance
  June 9, 2014
• Calendar notes
  June 4, 2014
• Supplementary, Mr Speaker
  June 2, 2014
• That peace is indivisible
  May 31, 2014
• Hapless voters
  May 26, 2014
• Hierarchy or mediocrity?
  May 21, 2014
• The floor-tile calculator
  May 19, 2014
• Manifesto
  May 18, 2014
• Modi
  May 17, 2014
• Lhude sing
  May 14, 2014
• An empowering thought
  May 12, 2014
• Mothers
  May 11, 2014
• Against happiness
  May 9, 2014
• Fandango
  May 7, 2014
• The ribbing
  May 5, 2014
• Silentium
  April 30, 2014
• Last lines
  April 11, 2014
• Libertine atheism
  April 3, 2014
• The catfish chronicles
  March 29, 2014
• Four quatrains
  March 24, 2014
• Labour law
  March 22, 2014
• News & the weather
  March 20, 2014
• The day after
  March 18, 2014
• Biblical exegesis
  March 15, 2014
• That age shall not weary them
  March 13, 2014
• Paradigm change
  March 12, 2014
• A mood
  March 11, 2014
• A dinosaur for Lent
  March 7, 2014
• Feast of St David
  March 1, 2014
• Céline as something else
  February 26, 2014
• Céline as moral agent
  February 25, 2014
• Signs & wonders
  February 24, 2014
• Endtiming
  February 18, 2014
• Breeding instructions, revisited
  February 15, 2014
• Corned mutton
  February 13, 2014
• Ghazal
  February 11, 2014
• Everyday sinning
  February 10, 2014
• Ordinary time
  February 9, 2014
• Ambiguous non-participation
  February 8, 2014
• Moreover …
  February 5, 2014
• Not request but demand
  February 4, 2014
• Nothing to debate
  February 3, 2014
• Inside the fog
  January 29, 2014
• More information
  January 27, 2014
• The viscerality deficit
  January 20, 2014
• The mystery of the thing
  January 13, 2014
• Yes & no
  January 8, 2014
• Anatomy of the January blues
  January 2, 2014
• Is democracy Christian?
  December 30, 2013
• Being & not-nothingness
  December 23, 2013
• Enforced literacy
  December 16, 2013
• Baloney or Bologna?
  December 11, 2013
• Cherchez la femme
  December 10, 2013
• A proper twit
  December 8, 2013
• Another little kick
  December 3, 2013
• Locke the key
  December 1, 2013
• Lay sermon
  November 24, 2013
• Steven Temple
  November 23, 2013
• Hsien
  November 22, 2013
• Our illustrious mayor
  November 5, 2013
• Dies irae
  November 2, 2013
• Three horsemen
  October 23, 2013
• Duets
  October 14, 2013
• My mama
  October 7, 2013
• Slimming plan
  October 2, 2013
• Buy-out scheme
  October 1, 2013
• Winged victory
  September 29, 2013
• Lust, anger, values
  September 26, 2013
• On the culture
  September 21, 2013
• Go forth, anyway
  September 15, 2013
• Taking war seriously
  September 13, 2013
• Lip service
  September 8, 2013
• An authoritarian writes
  September 3, 2013
• Shifty eyes
  August 30, 2013
• In the picture
  August 28, 2013
• The middle way
  August 26, 2013
• Descension
  August 19, 2013
• Chronicles of “peace, peace”
  August 15, 2013
• Victorian literature
  August 6, 2013
• Back to the future
  August 5, 2013
• A penny’s worth
  August 2, 2013
• Light-tight & might
  July 30, 2013
• Spadework
  July 24, 2013
• Birthwatch
  July 22, 2013
• The dead motor
  July 21, 2013
• Come the revolution
  July 20, 2013
• Alex Colville
  July 17, 2013
• Truth & numbers
  July 14, 2013
• The 5th of July
  July 5, 2013
• Arab autumn?
  July 3, 2013
• The happy soldier
  July 2, 2013
• Statutory holiday
  July 1, 2013
• Gallimaufry & anamnesis
  June 30, 2013
• Eco-mania
  June 26, 2013
• Quote for the day
  June 25, 2013
• Saint John Baptist
  June 24, 2013
• Urban vision
  June 21, 2013
• The last telegram
  June 19, 2013
• The idleness of Saint Thomas
  June 18, 2013
• Ends & means
  June 16, 2013
• Continued
  June 12, 2013
• Re-archaize now
  June 6, 2013
• The invention of comfort
  June 4, 2013
• Beyond help
  May 29, 2013
• Perhaps I should explain
  May 27, 2013
• Back to work
  May 24, 2013
• Neil Reynolds
  May 21, 2013
• Let’s party
  May 18, 2013
• The yairs chronicles
  May 15, 2013
• Straussian aside
  May 13, 2013
• Vive la décroissance
  May 10, 2013
• Mad Ruskin
  May 8, 2013
• Tombs for the living
  April 26, 2013
• Not why but how
  April 22, 2013
• The beuk chronicles
  April 17, 2013
• Faction against faction
  April 12, 2013
• Margaret Thatcher
  April 9, 2013
• Among the dead
  April 4, 2013
• An alteration of course?
  March 15, 2013
• Smoke & the mirrors
  March 13, 2013
• A tenor voice
  March 7, 2013
• The end of the world
  March 3, 2013
• High flight
  March 1, 2013
• Father Ratzinger of the Vatican
  February 28, 2013
• The Lenten adviser
  February 27, 2013
• Aristotle’s revenge
  February 25, 2013
• Bystander syndrome
  February 23, 2013
• Reason & the well-bred girl
  February 19, 2013
• In defence of idleness
  February 17, 2013
• Fresh fiats
  February 16, 2013
• Benedict’s “wager”
  February 14, 2013
• Reason & knowing
  February 13, 2013
• The resignation
  February 11, 2013
• False comfort
  February 9, 2013
• Questions of children
  February 8, 2013
• Ornithological note
  February 7, 2013
• The only certainty
  February 6, 2013
• Nisi Dominus
  February 5, 2013
• Apocalyptic Egypt
  January 26, 2013
• Just an idea
  January 24, 2013
• At the twilight’s last
  January 22, 2013
• To be human
  January 20, 2013
• Owner-sensitive media
  January 18, 2013
• The pursuit of ignorance
  January 17, 2013
• James M. Buchanan
  January 14, 2013
• The Baptism of Christ
  January 13, 2013
• Warmth in winter
  January 12, 2013
• Ask & it will be answered
  January 11, 2013
• Fellow passenger
  January 10, 2013
• Your problems solved
  January 9, 2013
• Rinascimenti
  January 8, 2013
• Cakes & ale
  January 5, 2013
• Swiss banking & you
  January 4, 2013
• She who must be portrayed
  January 1, 2013
• Robert Bork
  December 30, 2012
• Ho ho ho
  December 22, 2012
• Doomsday postponed
  December 21, 2012
• The mad in our streets
  December 20, 2012
• Ritualistic aside
  December 18, 2012
• “Why why why?”
  December 17, 2012
• Gaudete
  December 16, 2012
• Numerology
  December 15, 2012
• Om sweet om
  December 14, 2012
• Trendier than thou
  December 13, 2012
• Refugees in time
  December 12, 2012
• Father Schall in play
  December 11, 2012
• Patrick Moore
  December 10, 2012
• Receipt
  December 9, 2012
• That swart ship
  December 7, 2012
• Dave Brubeck
  December 6, 2012
• Joyous news
  December 4, 2012
• Another for Hector
  December 1, 2012
• Speaking truth to wieners
  November 30, 2012
• Live not by lies
  November 27, 2012
• A Confederate aside
  November 26, 2012
• The grisly cup
  November 25, 2012
• Thoughts for Black Friday
  November 23, 2012
• Our American Thanksgiving
  November 22, 2012
• Confucius says
  November 21, 2012
• Cherchez la vanille
  November 20, 2012
• From X to ex
  November 19, 2012
• The end of Twinkies?
  November 17, 2012
• A literary widow
  November 13, 2012
• In the kingdom of Whatever
  November 6, 2012
• Aphorisms of Don Colacho
  October 30, 2012
• The open pit
  October 29, 2012
• Jacques Barzun
  October 27, 2012
• A car or a baby?
  October 26, 2012
• The culinary symbolist
  October 23, 2012
• Violence around women
  October 19, 2012
• The majestic plural
  October 17, 2012
• Manuscript extractions
  October 16, 2012
• Bats & the philosophers
  October 15, 2012
• From Paul, via Ephesus
  October 11, 2012
• Up & about with Bill Tilman
  October 10, 2012
• Why bats are often happier than poets
  October 3, 2012
• Comparative intelligence
  October 2, 2012
• Tsurezuregusa
  September 29, 2012