It’s Not God Who Needs Saving – It’s Us
Instead of embarking on the project of "saving God" by replacing him with the natural and human shaped world, it is perhaps time to acknowledge that it is we ourselves that need
Eliot Agonistes: Letters to and from the editor
The latest volume of T.S. Eliot's letters provide agreeable shocks and reveals the travails of both his professional and love lives
Lessons For Librarians Of London’s Folio Fiasco
A plan to sell four Shakespeare Folios revealed a widespread underappreciation of rare books
Schiller’s Poetics of Freedom
The plays of Friedrich Schiller can guide us, or offer a guide to self-guidance, so that we may preserve our freedoms in the face of conflicting moral imperatives
At Home with the Letwins’ Salon
Bill and Shirley Letwin kept open house for open minds from Chicago to Cambridge and Hampstead
Ayn Rand: Prophet of Capitalism
Why Atlas Shrugged, the libertarian's bible, is back in the bestseller lists
Paths to Democracy, Catholic and Secular
Setting the tone of Catholic political thought for three centuries, it is in France where one uncovers the roots of the separation of Church and State
The Drumming of an Army
The Australian floods were encapsulated by underrated national poet, Dorothea Mackellar, whose poem "My Country" best captured the post-diluvian mood
Bad Beyond Imagination
Bernhard Schlink's novel, The Reader, is both artistically and morally fraudulent. The oscar-winning film that sprung from it is no better
Could Picasso Draw Better than Raphael?
Comparing Pablo Picasso's drawings to those of the Old Masters reveals his failure to master the basics of draughtsmanship