The United States, is of course, an inherently ‘racist’ country. It is the product of European (White) settlers appropriating a non-White country, and in the
Category: Philosophy
John Ruskin: Useful Work as the Only ‘Pure’ Religion (c. 1886)
In the first three paragraphs, John Ruskin is describing his 1849 visit to the Grande Chartreuse. This is the head-monastery of the Carthusian (Catholic) monastic
John Ruskin on Byron’s ‘Perfect’ Revolutionary Paragraph
‘Of course, I could no more measure Byron’s greatest powers at this time than I could Turner’s; but I saw that both were right in
My Mount Athos Icons (2001)
We visited Greece in late 2001 – not long after the terror-attacks on September 11th in New York – and I remember the airports being
How My Family Fell Prey to the Criminal Tory-LibDems Austerity (2010-2019)
We were well aware of the Tory-LibDems plans to dismantle the Welfare State and privatise the NHS. My parents are elderly and until my father
Pravda and Star Trek (1967)
On occasion, the average viewer would be mistaken for interpreting many of the logical diatribes of the Vulcan character Spock (played by Leonard Nimoy) as
