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Such as she was, such as she would become.
There is much discussion at the moment of the glory that was Greece, which has largely passed me by, but I thought of it as we drove to Richmond, Virginia, and I saw a small strip mall that called itself a plaza and then, rather charmingly,...
Larkin’s Anthology. An Extract from Dana Gioia’s New Catalogue.
Last week, an extract from ’s new catalogue of Philip Larkin’s work was published on . Today I am delighted to bring you a second extract, this one from the section of Dana’s catalogue about Larkin’s anthology—The Oxford Book of Twentieth C...
James Marriott and the Death of Civilization
Obviously, this is mostly about the literacy crisis, whether we understand it properly, whether it is happening in Spain, whether the PISA data supports James’ thesis, and so on. I began by asking how things might work out for the best…
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John Locke: the Playful Philosopher
I am delighted to have contributed an essay to Liberty Fund’s new Forum about John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Here is the opening.
One day, when my son was three years old, he stuck his finger into a candle. We were si...
Sublimation in Middlemarch
Eros need not be expressed sexually. In Freud’s account of the chaste and enormously fruitful life of Leonardo da Vinci, sexuality is “sublimated” onto different objects. Freud’s forebear, Plato, imagines rather that the body is a tempora...
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