What I am reading… Gerard Manley Hopkins
Here, listen to the uncanny insight… 75 The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less;…
What I am reading … the Opium war and chai
I am reading Stephen Platt, Imperial Twilight: the Opium War and the end of China’s last…
What I am reading… Weber’s iron cage and prophecy of cultural demise
Two passages from Max Weber’s The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism: “The Puritan wanted…
What I am reading… the death of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrígo Borgia)
From Christopher Hibbert, The Borgias and their enemies, 1431-1519, two anecdotes from the death of the…