A collection of 65 posts
As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
Children get a wider perspective when they’re tugged out of the here and now for a little while each day. In an enchanted hour, we can read them stories of the real and imagined past.
Appiah is wrong to pretend that distinct civilizations were never a thing.
Salinger has been posthumously relegated to the limbo of #MeToo-tainted, “problematic” cultural figures, which probably accounts for the awkward half-silence around his centenary.
I refuse to be discouraged by the sort of novel-gone-to-the-dogs pessimism that has been around for generations.