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"The fate of artists and of art itself is in the hands of too few persons, who share kindred tastes and cultish dogma," says Jonathan Meades. It is a cult of "puritanical, po-faced, censorious nothingness"

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"The fate of artists and of art itself is in the hands of too few persons, who share kindred tastes and cultish dogma," says Jonathan Meades. It is a cult of "puritanical, po-faced, censorious [More]

Lecturer in Philosophy (Ethics and Critical Thinking)

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Elizabeth Bishop had astonishing control and poetic technique. But below the surface was a gushing emotional register. Was she the loneliest person who ever lived?

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“O Niebuhr, Where Art Thou?” He died along with the literate public's interest in theology. Now Christian thought is in a long retreat. It doesn’t have to be that way

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Unequivocal Justice

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2017.10.20 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Christopher Freiman, Unequivocal Justice, Routledge, 2017, 157 pp., $140.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781138628229. Reviewed by Andrew I. [More]

Poor George Orwell. The bare-knuckled revolutionary has been reduced to a cuddly, bipartisan grandpa. Orwell’s deradicalization has a long and shameless history

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Poor George Orwell. The bare-knuckled revolutionary has been reduced to a cuddly, bipartisan grandpa. Orwell’s deradicalization has a long and shameless [More]

The past should be studied only to expose its failings. Or so goes liberal logic. How disparaging the past become a mark of intellectual respectability

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a political writer. But to see life solely in political terms, he believed, is to misunderstand it. The meaning of life lies elsewhere

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a political writer. But to see life solely in political terms, he believed, is to misunderstand it. The meaning of life lies [More]

The Age of Responsibility

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2017.10.19 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Yascha Mounk, The Age of Responsibility, Harvard University Press, 2017, 280 pp., $29.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780674545465. Reviewed [More]

Many of Alexander Calder's greatest works have their genesis in children’s toys. He was an overgrown man-child with a deep affinity for play

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"The fate of artists and of art itself is in the hands of too few persons, who share kindred tastes and cultish dogma," says <strong>Jonathan Meades.</strong> It is a cult of "puritanical, po-faced, censorious nothingness"

Lecturer in Philosophy (Ethics and Critical Thinking)

<strong>Elizabeth Bishop</strong> had astonishing control and poetic technique. But below the surface was a gushing emotional register. Was she the loneliest person who ever lived?

“<strong>O Niebuhr, Where Art Thou?</strong>” He died along with the literate public's interest in theology. Now Christian thought is in a long retreat. It doesn’t have to be that way

Unequivocal Justice

Poor George Orwell. The bare-knuckled revolutionary has been reduced to a cuddly, bipartisan grandpa. <strong>Orwell’s deradicalization</strong> has a long and shameless history

The past should be studied only to expose its failings. Or so goes liberal logic. How <strong>disparaging the past</strong> become a mark of intellectual respectability

<strong>Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</strong> was a political writer. But to see life solely in political terms, he believed, is to misunderstand it. The meaning of life lies elsewhere

The Age of Responsibility

Many of <strong>Alexander Calder</strong>'s greatest works have their genesis in children’s toys. He was an overgrown man-child with a deep affinity for play<strong><br /></strong>