The Gift
As every well-educated Englishman knows, the French can be tricky blighters.[i] Take Marcel Mauss: a French sociologist, perhaps better described as a social anthropologist, he [...]
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On Christine, Celia and Others
I’ve been going through something of an emotional maelstrom in the past few weeks. Well, that sounds dramatic: let’s say a small degree of emotional [...]
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03, 2018
The Banality of Shooting
Fifty-five years ago, to the day, The New Yorker published the last part of Hanna Arendt’s ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’, an opinion piece on Adolph Eichmann’s [...]
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Let’s Talk about Dick and Jane
I first met Dick and Jane twenty five years ago at a seminar. It was the launch of a new initiative, a two-day preview of [...]
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Democracy and Citizenship
I’ve been puzzling over what it means to live in a country of millions and, as a citizen, be able to exercise democratic rights. [...]