Bruce Charlton's Notions

* The way in which the media can put news 'down the memory hole' simply by refraining from mentioning it is an important insight i...

* Until about a decade ago, I was fairly heavily involved in critique-ing 'Evidence Based Medicine' (EBM) and the broader movement...

* Political correctness has absolutely no chance of success, it must inevitably fail. * There are many reasons for this - some conting...

* One of the most beautiful, and saddest, books of essays I have seen has appeared on Google Books. (I have been reading it at intervals...

* Under divine monarchy (the Byzantine model) the monarch believes himself subject to God, and the people believe themselves subject to Go...

* “ The theme of spiritual warfare is never absent in scripture, and never absent in the life and writings of a single saint. But it is n...

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neiJ0xgblFo&feature=related This music and this performance has a physical effect on me: I find my...

* Christopher Tolkien, from The Lost Road: * " From Elendil's words at the end of The Lost Road there emerges a sinister pictur...

* Our Bog is Dood Our Bog is dood, our Bog is dood, They lisped in accents mild, But when I asked them to explain They grew a little wild...

* It is my contention that political correctness is (more or less) communism plus 'original sin'. The 'original sin' ele...

* As I will be embarking on the attempt to pull-together my thoughts on political correctness, I will be confronted by the necessity to fr...

* My out-pourings on the topic of political correctness have now, more or less, stopped; and I am starting to pull things together. * ...

* There is honest pacifism - which asserts that war must be avoided on principle at any cost ; there is dishonest pacifism - which allows ...

* So, can political correctness be stopped?  The answer is no : not likely, not by any ordinary means. Not by power, organization, dem...

* As a companion piece to the Greek Orthodox choral music below, here is the Russian Orthodox tradition - with a delightful snowy winter v...

* This is a wonderful video http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98eek_yyyyyyyy-yy-kabarnos_music I like to imagine I am an Anglo-Saxon v...

* The difference between socialism and anarchism is that for socialists economics is primary while for anarchists power is primary. By t...

* Political correctness is, in its purest form, an extreme type of idealism: since a life in which all human 'goods' are allocated...

* I have been (again) reading Charles Williams (1886-1945) - indeed, I have been reading "C.W" off-and-on since about 1987 (stim...

* While it is fun to point out the selfishness and hypocrisy of the PC elite, it would be an error to imagine that political correctness i...

* Secular right commentators are always banging-on about the Christian nature and roots of PC. This is correct, but - being secular - th...