Great writers have always challenged us to measure the compromised reality of politics against our national ideals.
Saturday, 14 November 2020
Elite Opinion Is Never Wrong
Reality may fail to measure up to cocktail party assumptions, but the chit-chat of the better people rings on, unchanged.
Friday, 13 November 2020
With Charisma to Spare
Franz Brentano, philosopher and psychologist, was an iconic teacher eclipsed by his students, Freud and Husserl among them.
Islamism: How Terror Attacks Have Shocked France
France has again been rocked by a series of Islamist attacks. Jürgen Ritte, a German professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, speaks about how France handles terror.
The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.
Thursday, 12 November 2020
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Cane Toads Showing Signs of Rapid Evolution as They Continue Australian Invasion
Some might argue they should never have been brought here in the first place but they’re here now and they’re only becoming more widespread.
The Angry Arab: France’s Islam Problem
For Macron to speak of a ‘crisis in Islam’ is to pass judgment on a religion of 1.5 billion people and on individual Muslims.
The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information, which seems impossible by definition. The work appears to resolve a paradox that Stephen Hawking first described five decades ago.