The Pathos of Things

Do We Need the University?

Speaking as a non-academic: Yes

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To Lindisfarne and Back

An unlikely dialogue

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August 2025

The Future of Reading

Our sacred practice can flourish even if very few of us are doing it

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Heat

Hotter summers call for imaginative adaptations. We won't get them.

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Cities Without Jobs: Africa's Urban Crisis

The fate of the world's fastest-growing continent will affect us all

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June 2025

Practice and Virtue

In Memoriam Alasdair MacIntyre

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May 2025

Enclosing the Cultural Commons

Thoughts on artists and AI

May 29 • 

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More China

Roadblocks to the Chinese Century

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Chronicler of a doomed class

The bittersweet diaries of James Lees-Milne

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Blackout

Our society would rapidly unravel without electricity –– and information

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April 2025

Haptic City

A touch of Lisbon

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Supercycle

The most important story of our lifetimes

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