Lost Connections
Lost Connection Every so often I read an article or a book that seems to capture the current moment and does so in a [...]
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02, 2026
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01, 2026
Resolved
Are you resolved? Here we are at the beginning of the year, the time when convention suggests we should begin again by wiping the [...]
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12, 2025
Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick It must be a strange sight for a young child, to be confronted by a pile of plastic bricks, with no [...]
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06, 2025
Why Pain is Necessary
Antonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary I’ve broken my usual rule, and copied this extract from an article with the same name [...]
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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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06, 2025
A View From the Bridge
To have an informative view of matters is often a function of perspective. Pierre Ryckmans was a man with an enviable sense of perspective, [...]
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05, 2025
The End of the Affair
The End of the Affair Some books are disconcertingly good. Why disconcertingly? It might be because, for the reader, they offer the kind of [...]
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05, 2025
In Its Purest Form
Lolita: In Its Purest Form In a sense, all I want to say is ‘Read this book, it’s really brilliant’. As if it were [...]
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03, 2025
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Sometimes to attempt to write about a book in just four pages is ridiculous, almost an affront to a work that demands a significant [...]
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12, 2024
Is Beauty natural
Is beauty natural? In 1833, two years into his five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, a 24-year-old Charles Darwin wrote to his sister Catherine, entreating her [...]
