Three enemies surround us in a near-vacant tourist bivouac on the edge of the Sahara Desert: our head tour guide named Omar, and two caretakers named, as if in tribute to Newhart, [...]

“A complex system is a system composed of interconnected parts that as a whole exhibit one or more properties not obvious from the properties of the individual parts.” At first, he[...]

The first part of this series can be found here. The second part of this series can be found here. We Should Change How We View Drugs and Sport As I’ve mentioned before, the questi[...]

The first part of this series can be found here. The Façade of Sport vs. Inside of Sport Elite sport is like that George Clooney doppelganger coworker you realize is less stimulati[...]

A Lengthy Introduction On my way to a friend’s house for dinner on Tuesday, while briskly riding a piece-of-crap bicycle down Mansfield road, I rolled past Oxford’s prime graduate [...]

“Who is this New Woman, this epicene creature, this Gorgon set up by the snarly who impute to her the faults of both sexes while denying her the charm of either — where is she to b[...]

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I can’t recall her silhouette looming about the bench, directing her “pack” wi[...]

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon” – Napoleon Blenheim Palace The bus from Oxford city center drops us off near the entrance. We’r[...]

Excerpt of the thought process of a hypothetical student stuck in a hypothetical all-day boardroom meeting with ten academics armed with Powerpoint slides. I just doodled a coffee [...]

This week on the Flip, as those of us who love our website have come to call it, each writer was given an assignment – the following pre-sentence: “When I read about the death of t[...]