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Morality and justice

Moral Compass

December 18, 2023 Tags: memoir, morality and justice

1 The subject that afternoon, our teacher, Mr. Slater, told us, would be how to play chess. "Chess is about checkmate, about trapping your opponent’s king,” he said from the front of the classroom. “It isn't about taking pieces. Only mediocre

What Elise Stefanik’s Inquisition Actually Revealed

December 12, 2023 Tags: censorship, journalism and reporting, morality and justice, politics

Freedom of speech is essential if sound ideas are to be promoted and flourish and if dangerous ideas are to be exposed and wither. It can be a difficult freedom to defend. At a Congressional hearing last Tuesday, following the terrible events of

Gratitude for My Violent Act

December 1, 2023 Tags: crime, memoir, morality and justice

1 From the age of four until around my tenth birthday, my commute from the suburbs to my London school was at least an hour and a half each way. The coach, meaning a single-deck bus, ground through stop-and-start traffic along the non-postcard

Gender Tags

November 27, 2023 Tags: annoyances, morality and justice, politics, word usage

In the past few decades my name, Adrian, has become androgynous. The distinction used to be between my spelling, which was for boys and men, and “Adrienne” for girls and women. Often this distinction is maintained today, but often not. Combine the

If You Are Having Thoughts of Murder…

November 21, 2023 Tags: annoyances, morality and justice, satire

We live under such a barrage of public service announcements that they have become white noise. When a train comes to a grinding halt or my plane stands idly by the runway, I'm likely to hear the standard line, “We apologize for any

Sisyphus

November 14, 2023 Tags: crime, empathy, history, morality and justice, politics

Something terrible is always happening around the world. Many of us living in peaceful places can’t help but wonder at our good fortune while we seek to understand what has gone so wrong elsewhere. 1 Two mornings a week on my ninth floor terrace,

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