The mystery of good judgment
It does more to shape a life than intellect and hard work
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It does more to shape a life than intellect and hard work
When a well-connected author publishes a new book, they make the rounds of various shows. Such authors also enjoy mentions in the media, as befitting their fame and connections. Fo...
from The Critic By the goodness of those who are not treated very well.
by Dan Hitchens, First Things Reading—for obvious reasons—Henri Daniel-Rops’s The Church in the Dark Ages, I have been repeatedly struck by the truism that moments of institutional...
by James Jeffrey, The Critic The UK continues to miss the wood for the trees. It frets over the size of its military. It frets over its lack of economic dynamism. It frets over the...
George Eliot’s masterpiece of provincial life still has much to teach us about sympathy and toleranceVirgina Woolf declared Middlemarch “one of the few English novels written for g...
Porridge: Never heard of Jane Gardam. So far. Except I had — at least I knew the acronym.
by Daniel Dieppe, The Critic Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature Let’s say your close friend Geoff ran over an innocent pedestrian with a car, causing a se...
“We live in a time when progressives can sport bumper stickers that will tout the ticket of Shagrat/Slubgob 2024, and still manage to look down on you and your kind as ethical reta...
Daniel J. Mahoney, The American Mind In delightful literary forms, he conveys moral and political insights that remain all the more true for being so profoundly countercultural.
Olly Robbins gave MPs a classic civil servant’s performance – and there are lessons from the past about how ministers should respondThe Whitehall satire Yes Minister was said to be...
JohnH: Porridge: it is impossible to provide proper protections for the vulnerable How so? I’m not saying it’s not difficult but I can’t see why it’s impossible. Well, it...
JohnH: Porridge: it is impossible to provide proper protections for the vulnerable How so? I’m not saying it’s not difficult but I can’t see why it’s impossible. Well, it...
JohnH: I’d put greed for money and power first but some wrap it up in their religion. hairbear: And some wrap religion around thier own personal lust for money or power. I’...
Alasdair MacIntyre on the local.
Being wealthy, or not, is not wrong... it is more often the hand we are dealt, and while most of us would rather have ‘more,’ most of us would rather have our ‘more’ honesty, and r...
"The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself... to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the wor...
by Fitzroy Morrissey, The Critic When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine? In Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Expres...
THIS is an interesting book, which covers a wide range on the borders between theology and philosophy. It might have had as a subtitle “The relevance of the Torah for today”, but t...
That is the title of the new and very stimulating essay by Nabeel Qureshi. It is difficult to summarize, but here is one excerpt: 2. Great art contains multiple overlapping layers...
To say the least, life seems hard. I think you would find very few people who would tell you the world is all sunshine and rainbows and getting better every day. Instead, most woul...
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