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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06, 2025
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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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03, 2025
DD64 – Love in a Cold Climate
Love in a Cold Climate Why are some books compulsive, even when they seem so out of touch with one’s everyday concerns. Nancy Mitford’s [...]
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12, 2024
What Happened to Class
What Happened to Class? When I was growing up in the UK, class was an accepted feature of the social world. It wasn’t so [...]
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11, 2024
The Culture of the New Capitalism
The Culture of the New Capitalism It is often hard to explain – to oneself and to others – why you are drawn to [...]
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09, 2024
Rage On
Rage On Recently, my eldest daughter sent me a link to a talk given at the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival on 17 [...]
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09, 2024
Against Interpretation
Against Interpretation Susan Sontag is one of those people who is surrounded by dramatically divided opinions. She died twenty years ago, and from her [...]
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08, 2024
Ordinary Vices
Ordinary Vices I was born just before the first of the Baby Boomers generation. They emerged when the Second World War was over, Europe [...]
