Schopenhauer’s world
A review of The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee
Experiments against reality
On the passage of time and totalitarian callousness.
Some family news
Welcoming a familiar face to a new post.
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How the great truth dawned
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On the Soviet virtue of cruelty.
The country house today
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On architectural trends in the English countryside.
Nuclear holiday
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On comedy in the shadow of the Chernobyl tragedy.
Picking up with Kipling
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On The Cause of Humanity and Other Stories: Uncollected Prose Fictions, by Rudyard Kipling.
Letter from Aberystwyth
Art
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September 06, 2019
On Walt Whitman, Nazi design, and Russian bathhouses.
An overblown hypothesis
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September 05, 2019
On hurricanes and climate change.
The Critic’s Notebook
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September 04, 2019
On baseball cards, Notre-Dame, the Supreme Court & more from the world of culture.
Week in review
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August 30, 2019
On totalitarian satire, NYC public schools & the Amazon wildfires.
Fundamental Farinelli
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August 29, 2019
On a performance of Merope at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music.
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