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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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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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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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 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 [...]
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05, 2025
Left, Right, and Wrong
Like many people, I find books about science and mathematics, and the existence of logical puzzles fascinating. Among the many writers who managed to [...]
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The Alchemist
DD69 - The Alchemist There is a vast literature devoted to the business of ‘finding yourself’. One way is to overcome some demanding tests, [...]
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04, 2025
Histories of Time
Histories of Time There are two ways we tend to think about time. One has to do with the way we cut up time, [...]
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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 [...]
