Turn and face the strange…
About a year ago I wrote a post Time might change me, but I can’t change time. It…
The many cradles of civilizations (list)
Civilizations and natures From time to time, I am tempted to be a prophet of a…
Finnegans Awwwake agoin
Out of a whim, I opened again, as if for the first time, that great scary book…
A list of 21 books that shaped me
This list may never end, or so the green dream of the solitary reader goes: 1….
Time may change me but I can’t change time
Roger Scruton writes, in How to be a Conservative: Whatever our religion and our private convictions,…
The disappearance of stories from the world
If Snorri Sturlusen had not turned his court poet ear to the old stories among his…
A new dark age
It is a dark age when learning is despised; when violence prowls our streets; when the…
Traditions beyond politics
For much of my life I have thought about questions of politics and government. How can…
Millennial predictions 3 – big states will continue to fragment
Fernandez-Armesto’s interest as an historian rests in his unusual observations, framed in remarkable prose and made…
Notes on the death of culture (Mario Vargas Llosa)
Mario Vargas Llosa reviews, in the overture to this work, four influential essays on the traumatic…