Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Essay: Agnostics, Atheists and Abstainers - a case for Avoidance

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This essay develops a line of thought mentioned but not developed in my review of Francis Spufford's Unapologetic. Teetotallers (somet...
Monday, 26 November 2012

Review: Francis Spufford, Unapologetic

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"My daughter has just turned six. Some time over the next year or so, she will discover that her parents are weird. We're weir...
Monday, 12 November 2012

Review: T.S.Eliot, Notes Towards The Definition of Culture

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In 1948, T S Eliot won the Nobel Prize for Literature and published "Notes Towards the Definition of Culture". He was sixty y...
Sunday, 11 November 2012

Review: Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

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Fortunate the writer who today could command hardback publication for 52 pages of text. And which I would buy - as I bought this book i...
Thursday, 18 October 2012

Review: Michael Sandel, What Money Can't Buy

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Michael Sandel is Professor of Government at Harvard. Actually, he is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government. He's l...
Monday, 15 October 2012

Essay: America Cannot Continue Like This

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I haven't reviewed any books recently - I have been giving up on books half way through and therefore -  under the terms of this Blog - ...
Monday, 27 August 2012

Review: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable

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I took on the The Black Swan in the 2010 Revised edition but I only read the first edition material. This took me to page 300, by which ti...