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
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
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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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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04, 2025
The King Must Die
The King Must Die What is the skill which allows some writers to take the familiar and represent it in such a way that [...]
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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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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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03, 2025
At Play In the Fields of the Lord
At Play in the Fields of the Lord There is little more fascinating than discovering and meeting with people from another culture, especially if [...]
