‘Calvinist’ has become a dirty word, used to describe especially dour people. We have forgotten that John Calvin was not only a severe Christian but also a key figure in the intellectual making of the modern world.
Category: Essays
‘Therapeutic education’ and the human subject Continue reading “Knowing me, knowing you”
A keynote essay for the Battle of Ideas 2008
A keynote essay for the Battle of Ideas 2008
Continue reading “Lead on, Macduff*: McLeadership and the real thing”
Gang Leader for a Day, by Sudhir Venkatesh, Cop in the Hood, by Peter Moskos, Homicide, by David Simon
Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy, edited by William Dinan and David Miller
A new book on scary shills whitewashes the intellectual failures of the left, and shirks the task of putting forward a political alternative.
What’s so bad about abortion?, Future of Abortion conference, London, 24 June 2008
How an unloved system survives by default, and how its would-be critics condemn us to more of the same
Continue reading “Cynical capitalism, cynical anti-capitalism”
Maximilien Robespierre was a fearless critic of tradition and incorruptibly committed to liberty: a million miles from today’s webcam jihadists. Continue reading “Defending the Terror”
The Islamist, by Ed Husain
Critiques of Hizb ut-Tahrir focus less on its dodgy politics than on its intellectualism. But what’s wrong with a devotion to the debate of ideas? Continue reading “In defence of ‘radicalisation’”
Dolan Cummings 