Jonathan Simcoe

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world. —José Ortega y Gasset

Reality is very weird, and you need to be prepared for that. Like the hypothetical Holst, most of us would be tempted to discard this argument entirely out of hand. But this weird argument is correct, because reality is itself very weird. Looking at this “contradictory” evidence and responding with these weird bespoke splitting arguments turns out

Mothers, often caricatured, come off differently in such tropes. From Portnoy’s Complaint to Lady Bird, from Everybody Loves Raymond to Gilmore Girls, the mother must be overcome because her suffocating embrace is the means of her manipulation. Her presence swells and overwhelms and inhales all the oxygen an independent self needs to breathe. She

What Paul is saying is that the gospel strengthens us through the Spirit to see things in our society that others do not. We are called, as the people of God, to wake up. To see what others don’t and call it out. The church in America is not awake to the reality of what is happening in communities across this nation, and we are missing out on our

Trump had retweeted accounts often focused on conspiracy theories, including those of QAnon, on at least 145 occasions.

‘When I look back over the last 25 years, in some ways what seems most precious is not what we have made but how we have made it and what we have learned as a consequence of that,’ he says. ‘I always think that there are two products at the end of a programme; there is the physical product or the service, the thing that you have managed to make,

the much more difficult summit of Carstensz Pyramid (16,535 feet) in the Indonesian province of Irian Barat,

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.