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The Critic · ‘Welcome back to reality, feminists’ by David Starkey. “‘What is truth?’ said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.”. The opening sentence of Francis Bacon’s celebrated essay “Of Truth” stands like a declaration of intent at a foundation moment of our culture. For asking the question, “staying ...
On 26 October 2022, my friends who are in their early 80s — let’s call them Mr and Mrs C — were standing in the narrow drive leading to their house in Devon while talking to a young man. A car started down the drive, and far from slowing as it approached, it accelerated hard towards them, pulling up with a skid about three feet in front ...
Feb 3, 2023 · When the Goths invaded the Roman Empire, St Ambrose used the wealth of the Church, even melting down the gold used on the altar, to ransom prisoners from the invaders. He said, “The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.”. St Augustine, his pupil, responded likewise to a Gothic invasion of Rome.
Flawed analysis of illiberal culture. d’Ancona is guilty of the same kind of arrogance and bad faith he identifies in other liberals. Books. Seamus Flaherty.
Apr 12, 2023 · By. Niall Gooch. Reading an Enid Blyton adventure to my children a couple of years back, I was quite shocked to encounter the n-word, used as part of a simile to describe some soot-covered, white-skinned children. Presumably it has been expurgated from more recent editions, but our copy of the book — I can’t recall which one it was ...
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting. The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny. Fred Skulthorp.
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