Archive - The Pathos of Things

Practice and Virtue

In Memoriam Alasdair MacIntyre

Jun 20 •

May 2025

Enclosing the Cultural Commons

Thoughts on artists and AI

May 29 •

Roadblocks to the Chinese Century

May 25 •

Chronicler of a doomed class

The bittersweet diaries of James Lees-Milne

May 16 •

Our society would rapidly unravel without electricity –– and information

May 5 •

April 2025

A touch of Lisbon

Apr 30 •

The most important story of our lifetimes

Apr 14 •

March 2025

Tesla's Moment of Peril

The EV pioneer has a Musk problem, but does it have a Musk solution?

Mar 25 •

Forgetting Covid

Artefacts of the pandemic years

Mar 15 •

February 2025

Anatomy of an obsession

Feb 6 •

January 2025

The unplacing of London

Jan 25 •

Parable of the desk

On the virtues of distraction (or certain forms of it)

Jan 2 •

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