The condescension of posterity
Frank Furedi has proposed an intriguing idea that the spectre haunting radical identity politics, the Rainbow…
The Red Guards are coming
Since posting Is America reliving the 1917 revolution? a few days ago I have noticed numerous…
Is America reliving the 1917 revolution – an American People’s Tragedy?
Over the last week I have been chilled by some resemblances between the current American political,…
K.T. McFarland’s Revolution in Tamerlane’s Shadow
Over the last week I have read the K.T. (Kathleen Troia) McFarland’s Revolution: Trump, Washington and…
Thucydides’ Tower
Thucydides, one of the rival brothers who founded the Western tradition of history, who lived in…
Plague Notes
The stay-at-home urging continues, and we are all doing the responsible thing. Some order appears to…
The plague year
I have been following the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic since January, especially through the remarkable…
Emmanuel Todd’s Lineages of Modernity
“Never have human groups of such a size been so rich, so old, so educated, so…
My descriptions of the Northern Peoples – travel in Stockholm and Uppsala
I am returning today to my notes on my travels, and piecing together the literary and…
Poem: how to make a life
Here is a poem I have written this morning that is, I suppose, a kind of…