John Ruskin’s Politics and Natural Law
My chum the very excellent Graham MacDonald has a new book coming out. aestheticsenvironmentalismGraham MacDonaldintellectual historyjohn ruskinnatural lawPolitical philosophy
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Comos + Taxis 1:1
complexitycosmos & taxisdistributed knowledgeFriedrich Hayekpolitical economySpontaneous order
Who commits violent antisemitic attacks in Europe? Hint: it’s not neo-Nazis
Philippe Lemoine’s close-grained analysis on the topic also understood by others such as Melanie Phillips. Along with Douglas Murray’s latest article inevitably all this points to a rather bleak outlook for UK Jewry. My brief thoughts on the matter of the regressive’s complicity with Islamofascism outlined here. authoritarianismChristopher Hitchensdouglas murrayilliberalismislamofascismJew hatredMelanie PhillipsNazismPhilippe Lemoineregressive left
Cracked Actor
Sounding ever more familiar? Chris O’Leary writes: It’s one of the most brutal lines Bowie ever wrote: “Forget that I’m fifty, ’cause you just got paid.” While the song basically ends at 1:40, the guitar and harmonica extend the track for four more 12-bar choruses, starting a fifth as the track fades out, suggesting the…
For the Fallen
Robert Laurence Binyon’s classic poem. Painting by Jacqueline Hurley. freedomJacqueline HurleyliberalityPoetryremembranceRobert Laurence Binyon
Wendell Eugene
Obituaries from WWOZ website and The Advocate brassJazznew orleanstromboneWendell Eugene
EPISTEME: Volume 14 – Issue 4
Latest issue now available. EPISTEMEEpistemologysocial epistemology
Chloe (Song of the Swamp)
I’ve always found Pops’ version deeply moving and meaningful. Everything one needs to know about this tune can be found on Ricky Riccardi’s fantastic blog. chloeLouis ArmstrongmusicRicky Riccardi
Walker Percy Wednesday 158
It might be useful to look into the workings of these accidental stumblings into poetic meaning, because they exhibit in a striking fashion that particular feature of metaphor which has most troubled philosophers: that it is “wrong”-it asserts of one thing that it is something else-and further, that its beauty often seems proportionate to its wrongness…
A Different ‘Darkness at Noon’
As this year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution I’m astonished by the ubiquitous uncritical flirtation with this brand of totalitarianism, the body count far exceeding that of even the Nazis. As someone who has read Darkness at Noon several times, a book given to me by someone who used to have sympathies, Michael Scammell makes…
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