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Posted on February 26, 2018

“Democracy is a thing which is always breaking down through the complexity of civilisation” – GK Chesterton, Allan Massie and complexity

. As I have recently written, I am reading a collection of Allan Massie’s Life and Letters columns from the Spectator, which is full of shrewd judgments. In particular there…

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Posted on July 3, 2016July 3, 2016

On virtues of the heroic ages: from “After Virtue” by Alasdair MacIntyre

The exercise of the heroic virtues thus requires both a particular kind of human being and a particular kind of social structure. Just because this is so, an inspection of…

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Posted on March 7, 2016

Post Election Thoughts, or Easter 2016

When I read this passage from Adam Nicolson’s Why Homer Matters (NYTimes review here) a few weeks ago I was struck at how relevant it seemed to the (then upcoming) election. I…

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