John Updike
John Updike It is always important to know the enemy, and on this occasion the enemy is me. Let’s be clear, I am an [...]
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Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor Tidying up some items in a desk drawer, I found a tin with several old coins inside. I must have put them [...]
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer Just about every day an expert is happily giving the rest of us advice on what we need to do. The proposal [...]
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George Orwell
George Orwell What can be said in four pages about one of the more important writers of the 20th Century? So much has been [...]
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Michael Novak
Michael Novak There I was, quietly eating my vegetable soup listening to ABC Classical radio when the next item came on: it was Ralph [...]
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Here and There – Japan
Here and there – Japan I have always enjoyed my visits to Japan, and at the same time I have always felt an outsider, [...]
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Kenneth Gergen
Kenneth Gergen On page 14, there is a cartoon, a Larson cartoon. In an otherwise empty room, a man is sitting at a desk, [...]
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Felipe Fernández-Armesto In the face of vast quantities of information and analyses about wars, floods, political jousting and so many other topics, we are [...]
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Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio On September 13, 1848, a twenty-five-year-old foreman was directing a team blasting rocks to open up a path for a railway line [...]
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Here and There – Greece
Here and There – Greece Perhaps because it is at the ‘wrong’ end of Europe, the eastern end, the furthest away from the UK [...]