And, because good essays are hard to find

Those of you unfamiliar with the thoughtful and elegant pen of superversive  are invited to correct the defect:

Ad effigiem
The strawman fallacy in Utopian fiction
Of all the habitual fallacies and prejudices that have poisoned the wells of reason in our time, none, perhaps, has been so destructive as what Owen Barfield christened ‘chronological snobbery’.

Moorcock, Saruman, and the...