Ruth Wilson x car design

Everyone loves Idris Elba, and rightly so, but his intellectual and charismatic match in Luther is sociopath Alice Morgan, played by Ruth Wilson. Most appropriately, she drives the hyper stylish Jensen Interceptor. Worth watching is a British chap talking with Jay Leno about his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGVcJrEJW7E. Hard to believe but there is an even cooler Jensen,…

Apple bows to Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke is one of Britain’s towering intellectual figures, a man, who, like his contemporary Adam Smith, continues to impact our moral and political order.  I have spoken about Burke here: http://www.libertylawsite.org/2016/09/07/burke-and-burkinis/.   At the heart of his thinking is the idea of inheritance, that you and I live by the grace of what he…

Art imitates natural law

*Special Note: This is a close to the series of recent posts on natural law prompted by a set of luncheons at Loyola University Maryland. The final luncheon was guided by Scott Roninger of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. What follows is an outline of his presentation with additions made by myself to explore fashion…

Vetements and the gnomes of Zurich

This post is about the disturbing link between fashion and tax havens.   Vetements has just moved to Switzerland to benefit from the gnomes of Zurich. A phrase coined back in the `60’s by a British socialist politician, George Brown (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8534936.stm), the gnomes are the bankers of Switzerland who ably and secretly shield family wealth…