January, 2018 | Travelling North

26 01, 2018

Freedom of Speech

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722018-04-09T15:20:35+00:00January 26th, 2018|Politics, Society|

I first learnt about Hugo Black through watching the PBS series ‘The Supreme Court’. His early life was inauspicious. Born in 1886, in Ashland, [...]

19 01, 2018

Making Progress

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722018-04-09T15:16:16+00:00January 19th, 2018|Society|

There used to be a view that the direction of human history was always upwards, the arrow of progress. While that has been dented somewhat [...]

12 01, 2018

Are They Kidding?

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722018-04-09T15:18:04+00:00January 12th, 2018|Society|

I was reading about ‘self-driving cars’ the other day. Today, the clever technologies being installed in cars are certainly very helpful. My wife has a [...]

5 01, 2018

Sapiens

trAAvDkWorDDp3928722018-04-09T15:10:23+00:00January 5th, 2018|Books, Philosophical|

I’m currently reading Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari.[i] The subtitle explains that it is a “brief history of humankind”, and it is the backward-looking [...]