John Ruskin: Fit the Second
So what interests me about Ruskin’s Fors Clavigera? Several things: a lively interchange of ideas about political...
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John Ruskin: Fit the First
Thirteen years ago, when my friend Jamie Smith launched his blog, he named it Fors Clavigera in honor of a strange and...
Edmund Wilson on Marxism
I have just re-read, for the first time in decades, Edmund Wilson’s To the Finland Station — which, it...
sad compatibilism
Sohrab Amari writes in Commentary about two kinds of Christian response to the dominant liberal order, the...
rewriting ancient history
This fascinating article by David Graeber and David Wengrow challenges a strongly established historical...
so many questions
I have many questions — real, deep, sincere questions — about this. Does Katherine Dettwyler really believe that a...
being right to no effect
This post of mine from earlier today, which was based on this column by Damon Linker, has a lot in common with this...
into the morass
Following up on yesterday’s request for help with the notorious Bret Stephens op-ed on climate change — no help has...
the fragility of platforms
In a comment on my previous post, Adam Roberts writes: In terms of human intermediation, facebook and twitter are...
platforms and institutions
In the new edition of his book on the modern Left, which I review here, Roger Scruton writes, Occasional lip service is...