Month: October 2012

The New Terrapin Gazette Number 275 30 October, 2012 We need the government to be afraid of its citizens. We want our rulers to think carefully about what they try to take from us. We need to remember that they can only take...

The New Terrapin Gazette Number 274 24 October, 2012 There comes a point when you suddenly find yourself behaving like Robert Browning as characterized by Gerard Manley Hopkins: “a man bouncing up from a table, his mouth...

The New Terrapin Gazette Number 273 20 August, 2012 …man’s original sin was precisely what the Bible says it was: eating from the tree of knowledge; that is, in modern parlance, invention of symbolic universes. This...

The New Terrapin Gazette Number 272 16 August, 2012 Religious Muslims cannot help but disdain a culture that, to the degree that it is secular, is a culture of infidels; to the degree that it is religious, our culture is the...

The New Terrapin Gazette Number 271 12 October, 2012 Psychology has obviously lost the happy recklessness it enjoyed when Watson, Hull and Skinner, in their respective ways, believed they had found the great Laplacean formula of...