Book review – social commentary
In praise of affectation
Aversion to pretentiousness was probably an English trait before Dr Johnson famously refuted Bishop Berkeley’s arguments for the immateriality of…
Naming and maiming
Jeremy Clarkson has been getting it in the neck from Twitter’s (I was going to say) tricoteuses — but social…
March of the robots
Nicholas Carr has a bee in his bonnet, and given his susceptibilities this might well be a cybernetic insect, cunningly…
Purifying the gymnasium
Toby Young 5 March 2016 9:00 am
When Friedrich Nietzsche was offered a professorship in classical philology at the university of Basel in 1869 he was so…