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A Plea for a New Publishing Convention
It is widely acknowledged that as a society we face a number of pressing emergencies.
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The Real Problem with Scroogenomics
Reflections on the economic approach to human behaviour
Dec 24, 2025
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A Chicago-Style defence of Literary Criticism
Knightean reflections on the problem of value
Dec 6, 2025
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A Mathematician at War
On Alexander Aitken's Gallipoli to the Somme
Nov 4, 2025
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Annihilating Romanticism
Thoughts occasioned by John Pistelli
Oct 13, 2025
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Box Populi
Reflections on B F Skinner
Sep 12, 2025
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The Break
Notes on David Jones' 'Art and Sacrament'
Sep 2, 2025
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The Liberal Imagination Revisited
On Trilling's extravagant liberalism
Aug 20, 2025
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The Hedonimeter
Sam Kriss, rationalists and the apotheosis of utilitarianism
Jul 28, 2025
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Adam Smith's Demon
Re-reading The Wealth of Nations with René Thom
Jul 23, 2025
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Notes on a Theory of Literary Decline
Macintyre, Conrad, Wittgenstein
Jul 7, 2025
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Better Angels
A homage to Steven Pinker
Jun 26, 2025
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