National Review- Quillette
- Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024 December 21, 2024Jamie, Jon, Iona, and Claire share their favourite essays from this year.Quillette
- Podcast #264: A Theory of Everyone December 21, 2024Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of ‘A Theory of Everyone,’ about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything.Quillette
- From Skies to Screens December 20, 2024Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.Robert Huddleston
- Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024 December 21, 2024
- Jay Nordlinger
- Roads of Poetry December 20, 2024Reader mail about poems, memorized.Jay Nordlinger
- Poems by Heart, Cont. December 20, 2024Writers tell of poems they have memorized, would like to memorize, etc.Jay Nordlinger
- A Man of Parts December 19, 2024WFB was big, devouring life, and brightening it.Jay Nordlinger
- Roads of Poetry December 20, 2024
Daily Archives: July 29, 2017
The First Duty of Intelligent Men
“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” George Orwell With Orwell’s aphorism in mind I am reminded of when I served as a juror in a trial. It was a criminal case … Continue reading
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