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This is brilliant from James Hawes. He shows how Robert Tombs’ support of Brexit involves him in a Whig history that NEGATES his true Tory insights in his truly great
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Why are we so convinced that our scientifically superior analysis of a very few remaining texts is superior to the ancient knowledge of their own past based on many texts
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It seems incredible that after the efforts of so many scholars people have reverted to talking about ‘theism’ which has never existed. Also forgotten is that the very term ‘philosophy
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Typically excellent piece from AR. Macron’s crucial combination of resistance to Political Islamism with new active European engagement in Africa (effectively if benignly neo-imperial) very much accords with the last
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George Davie’s remarkable works suggest that the difference of Scottish learned culture is much greater than the Irish one, historically much more impacted by the English. He also shows that
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James Hawes notes that Harry Potter turned round the fortunes of public schools. Their products now over-dominate acting, media, sports, Oxbridge. But have state schools and universities learnt from this
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I am a fan of Simon Schama who is a good and serious person but I found his first Romantics TV programme disappointing. It too much aligned Romanticism with Revolution.
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Christians in the US should unequivocally support the Biden/Harris ticket: Trump’s disregard for human life, for children’s welfare and for truth, besides his evident (if opportunistic) racism are all completely
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This is completely superlative. It demonstrates just how wide of the mark is the idea we are entering a new age of the nation state. No: a new age of
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France banned theology from its universities but much of its philosophy (arguably the most secretly dominant, Biranian current) is religious and respects religion. AngloSaxondom allows theology (just about) but its
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Re apologising for slavery we need to remember that it was not often seen as an absolute evil by any past culture, including the Western, and not by the Bible.
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Thoughts on empire:1. All political power us ambivalent. Vertical violence of ‘the state’ tends to limit horizontal power between people and between tribes. There is new oppression, but also a
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