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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The Company
The Company There are two usages that dominate the word ‘Company’, one very familiar, and the other somewhat more limited. That second usage is [...]
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The Soul: History of the Mind
DD83 - The Soul: A History of the Human Mind Paul Ham’s 2024 book, The Soul, is described as a deep dive into history [...]
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07, 2025
Gods and Robots
DD82 - Gods and Robots It is hard not to be fascinated by robots, machines that are capable of carrying out complex actions automatically, [...]
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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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DD79 – The Honor Code
DD79 – The Honor Code There are some words that give us pause for thought, because their meanings turn out to be tricky, rather [...]
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06, 2025
Truth
Truth When Felipe Fernandez-Armesto wrote his book Truth, he added a comment at the bottom of the book cover: “A History and a Guide [...]
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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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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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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 [...]
