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Posted on April 27, 2019

L.M. Sacasas on accusations of romanticising the past.

At The Frailest Thing blog, L.M. Sacasas identifies something I’ve often noticed and wish there was a handy word for: Steven Pinker and Jason Hickel have recently engaged in a…

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Posted on September 9, 2018September 1, 2018

Extinct in Ireland, September 9th, Black-necked Grebe

From Whittled Away: Bred at Lough Funshinagh, County Roscommon, until 1957. This 2015 Irish Examiner piece gives more of the story: The species once had a special relationship with Ireland; a County…

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Posted on April 4, 2018April 4, 2018

“We should sing the Land song again” Brian Anson AA Lecture (story) from 1974

Originally posted on Beyond Post-Conflict Architecture:
What follows are the extensive notes from a paper on ‘LAND’ that the late architect Brian Anson gave at the Architectural Association (AA) in…

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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 August 31, 2017

Frank Ebrington, The Dubliner who was The World’s Fastest Man

From “Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time” by Simon Garfield Before sport became a subject for record books, there was just the realisation that humans (upright, no tail)…

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Posted on February 10, 2017

From “LA*HWI*NE*SKI: Career of an Eccentric Naturalist” by John Jeremiah Sullivan

That’s what’s so terrifying but also heroic in Rafinesque, to know he could see that far, function at that outer-orbital a level intellectually, yet still wind up viciously hobbled by…

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Posted on January 14, 2017

Janan Ganesh on “history’s luckiest generation” and J G Ballard on the moon landings

In today’s FT weekend there is an interesting column by Janan Ganesh (who I previously featured on this blog) on how, given our times are in so many ways disconnected…

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