Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
“There were harsher and potentially more threatening judgments made of [Boris] Spassky.[Boris] Spassky. Baturinskii accused him of being under the sway of ‘objectivist views over the location of his match…
In a sensation-hungry media, exposing The Last Taboo is something of a recurrent theme. Indeed, the evident fallacy in repeatedly identifying “last” taboos does not seemingly stop journalists and subeditors reaching…
There’s a fascinating and – to use an overused phrase – thought-provoking piece in the LRB by David Bromwich about free speech. The early sections deal with the Rushdie affair…
Living in South Tipperary, the proximity of the a plethora of high crosses naturally piques ones interest. Some are well known, such as the Ahenny Crosses, some such as that…
As featured on the BBC website… I am well aware of the moral issues pointed out by the the third commentator here. Perhaps the somewhat arch tone passed him by, and the mockery…
Thank you Paul Arbair who commented on a brief reference in my post on Joseph Tainter to Brexit in Tainterian (sic) terms with a link to his own far far far…
Reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s “After Virtue” – about two thirds of the way through. Whatever the virtues of the central arguments, there are an awful lot of thought-provoking quotes some of…
Somewhere along the way I came across references to Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of Complex Societies and finally read it in recent weeks. Tainter’s prose style reminded me a little of John…
Séamus Sweeney 