Bloom’s last lilac: the death of Harold Bloom (1930-2019)
The American literary critic, or rather lover of literature, is dead at 89. There are the…
Game of Thrones and the reenchantment of the world
“There are three points of view from which a writer can be considered: he may be…
Reflections on 2018… fragments
This year has had no coherent themes for me, and perhaps that is why I have…
Reflections on 2018… ambiguous loss
I am listening to the On Being podcast that features this week a conversation with Pauline…
What I am reading… Solzhenitsyn on his limited experience
From a review of recent books on Solzhenitsyn come this brief account of the conservative Russian…
Could the culture wars descend into civil wars?
Over at the online magazine Quilette, a Shakespeare scholar at a minor English university, Neerna Parvini,…
The slow death of my history
Over the last couple of months I have been reading history. Â Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The Romanovs:…
The meaning of a coup
Barely a week ago Australia was gripped in political drama – a clumsily organised coup was…
The Abyss and cultural rebirth
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where…
Reflections on the emergence of Jordan B Peterson
#1 – One recent Jordan B Peterson podcast is his appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival….