Silk Roads
Silk Roads When I was around seven years old, my friend Andrew told me about his father’s plan. Back then, more than seventy years [...]
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Arcadia
Arcadia Why do some moments stick in our minds? Often, they are memorable because they are both exceptional and unanticipated. For me, one was [...]
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12, 2025
Inevitability
Inevitability There is a popular strategy in looking back at past events to wonder ‘if only …’. It’s tricky. Any speculation about what could [...]
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11, 2025
Descartes Bones
Descartes’ Bones There are many challenges in writing about other people, especially those whose ideas have become important to you, or more widely. The [...]
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10, 2025
Aigai
Aigai We were in the second half of our cruise, travelling down the eastern coast of Greece, when the ship stopped at Thessaloniki. As [...]
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10, 2025
Caravaggio
Caravaggio Why do we become especially focussed on some artists or, to be more precise, on some works of art? There is often no [...]
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08, 2025
The Culture of Hope
The Culture of Hope As I see it, destiny was determined to make Frederick Turner of interest. Born in England on 19 November 1943, [...]
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07, 2025
DD81 – The Wreck of Western Culture
DD81 - The Wreck of Western Culture Do I want to be thought of as a ‘grumpy old man’? Well, I am old, and [...]
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06, 2025
Civility
Civility Stephen Carter is a fascinating thinker and writer, a legal scholar based at Yale, who has written on both legal and social issues. [...]
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05, 2025
The West and the Rest
DD74 - The West and the Rest He died in 2020, but Roger Scruton still comes across as a contemporary critic. Idiosyncratic? Certainly. Alarmingly [...]
