When Claudine Gay resigned as President of Harvard this week the gloating by some conservative activists and commentators was unappealing…
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow." You may not remember…
One Last week IntrepidEd News published another of my pieces. This one is about how schools are on the front…
I wrote this primarily as a way to sort my ideas out. Feel free to skip. However do take a…
A bunch of angry shouty men showed up to protest the Standing for Women Let Women Speak event in Leeds…
It's been a bit quiet on the R and R front this Fall but I've not been entirely idle. I…
My Wittgenstein project has entered a fallow phase but it is merely on furlough for a while and will be…
I'm launched on a Wittgenstein project. I thought it was about time I knew more about him and his work…
In 1913, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore "because of his profoundly sensitive,…
Long ago, but not so far away, but decades before DEI rebranded itself as Divide, Exclude, and Intrude I too…
A long time ago I studied Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II as a set text for "A" level. As was…
On 14 June 1940, Paris fell to the German Army. The British author Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote in her diary.…
Here is the video that caused all the discussion: What do you think?
The daily stroll last week took us down Claremont Avenue where large picture window affords a passing glimpse into a…
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re…