In his elegy for the first days of the first year of the First World War, “MCMXIV,” Philip Larkin says “never such innocence again.” But he was wrong. I say that because of the reports of young protesters in Hong … Continue reading
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An old friend who has spent his adult life politically engage’, as the french say, recently admitted he can barely stand to watch or read the news anymore. It is not that he’s uninterested in our evolving fate; it’s that … Continue reading
In “Dover Beach,” the eminent Victorian, Matthew Arnold, expressed the belief that the tide of Faith was going out. Today, it sometimes seems the tide of enlightenment rationalism has gone down the drain, and that we are sinking into primitive … Continue reading