I think one problem with a lot of writing is that it has a thesis. Personally I don’t often see point to such a thing. Sometimes I do, and I try to be blunt about it, but this is treated as some kind of crime. If you are honest about…

I was considering writing an article on Ukraine, but truth is that I felt like a broken record. I could go in on how Russia have had military stationed in Crimea for over a century (they lease an army base there, and have done so since the empire still existed)…

So we all know about President Donald Trump, the whole world was bombarded with news about him, and looking back at it I think there are some lessons to be learned about why he was unpopular. Simply put, what got him into trouble was his dedication to giving people equal…

Today I want to discuss pragmatism. You find it especially in modern times in politics and in law, as well as institutional regulation. Pragmatism refers to what is often the default mode of reasoning when you are in a relationship with an antagonistic authority. …

I am not a poet. However, I get a lot of recommendations from Medium from “writing coaches.” A minority of these do offer good advice, but most of them are vultures and con artists who market themselves as “insiders” to the “writing industry.” …

In the beginning, there was record. Simple as, this is how history begins. It begins with record. Spoken, written, rendered, it varies. But this is how history begins, it begins with transcendental memory. It begins with one generation inheriting the recollection of the former. Perhaps in a limited, distorted or…

Today I want to discuss something which I think is very interesting. Recently I have studied a lot of things relating to western epistemology, especially language games and epistemes and a bit of Lyotard and so on. I heavily disagree with this ideology, this postmodernism, but I will concede one…

So I have noticed a very tragic discrepancy to my responses, which is that most of my criticisms are generally from old middle class guys. I write a lot about philosophy, and foreign policy, and history and stuff that is generally tinted with a patriarchal lean. And that seems very…

I often get described as an authoritarian because I hold fond views of Josef Stalin, and the Soviet Union, and Marxism and what have you, and it doesn’t really bother me too much because it’s just the vocabulary of murderers. People say authoritarian when they want to invade a country…