Awakenings
Awakenings Although the evidence suggests its impact may be abating, we are all well aware of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global disease resulting from [...]
Awakenings Although the evidence suggests its impact may be abating, we are all well aware of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global disease resulting from [...]
What’s Going on? Browsing in the library is a dangerous pastime. I exercise this foolish endeavour in the Dickson Public Library in Canberra. Like [...]
Xanthippic Dialogues Roger Scruton has to be one of the most fascinating, frustrating and thought-provoking of modern philosophers. Along with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Jonathan Glover [...]
Transitions I first read about ‘rites de passage’ back in the 1960s. I was a student, enrolled in a social anthropology course, and Arnold [...]
Malabar Hill In the past I have confessed my love of detective novels, both classic and contemporary. I’ve probably admitted they account for more [...]
Migration Living in England, a young and decidedly amateur ornithologist, I didn’t pay much attention to annual bird migration. Like many other watchers, I [...]
Lacey Flint For much of my life, I have read, and read and read, detective stories. I’m quite unable to understand why this is [...]