There are certain English sentences which explain a plot, and there are sentences which, having explained the plot, proceed rather impertinently to explain half of human history. I believe Tolkien possessed a peculiar gift for the latter. “Oft evil will shall evil mar,” Theoden remarks in The Two Towers, somewhere towards the latter end of […]
A right to something implies no one can legitimately take it from you or prevent you from enjoying that right. Thus a right to something means you are justified to use force to defend it. For example you have a right to your life, so if someone attacks you or threatens your life you can […]
By Sean Dempsey, 07/20/25 Let no one say the following is allegory or invention. It is, I assure the reader, entirely true, having been performed not upon the floor of Parliament nor the pages of moralist tracts, but in a respectable laboratory, by a respectable scientist, using respectable mice. In the Year of our Lord […]
