Andrew Ferguson: ‘The tiny corner of the New York Times empire where David Barstow works is called the investigative unit. The name has an impressive urgency to it, like the title of a TV spin-off—CSI: Times Investigative Unit.
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THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY
Conference: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art
University of Leeds, Thursday 28 June 2012. Roger Scruton, Jonathan Gilmore, Jenefer Robinson, Gordon Graham, others. For details: The Royal Institute of Philosophy.
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Peter Riley: Poetry Prize Culture and the Aberdeen Angus. | Denise Riley and the force of bereavement. | Poetry beyond the cults and enclaves.
Alan Wall: The Janus Face of Metaphor. | Clues and Labyrinths. | Ruin, the collector and sad mortality.
Keith Johnson: Lawrence Weiner's mythic waste basket.
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By Roger Berkowitz, Juliet du Boulay, Denis Boyles, Stan Carey, H.R. Haxton, Allen M. Hornblum, Alan Macfarlane, Anthony O'Hear, Andrew Sinclair, Harry Stein, Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, and many others. Free access.
· Hugh Chisholm
· Elliott Coleman
· Robert Coover
· Ethel Dilke
· Anthony Howell
· Ann Lauterbach
· Lawrence Markert
· Myra Sklarew
· Martin Sorrell
· William Stafford
· James Thomson [B.V.]
· Paul Verlaine
· Michelene Wandor
· Stephen Wiest
Occ. Notes...
A dilemma for educators:
Philosophy and the public impact.
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Michelene Wandor on Derek Walcott and the T.S. Eliot Prize.
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Nick Lowe: the true-blue Basher shows up for a friend.
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Original Sin and Our Choice.
Anthony O’Hear: There is no voice offering an alternative to the soft totalitarianism we have become so used to, or proposing any dismantling of the great leviathan bearing down on individual souls. That leviathan gained ground because people believed that it could remedy weaknesses inherent in the human condition, which in another age might have been seen as the inevitable outcome of original sin.