Crypto-Catholic Libertine

"Charles II, himself a crypto-Catholic libertine, was reputedly appalled by James's folly in matters of religion and sex: 'My brother will lose his kingdom by his bigotry, and his soul for a lot of ugly trollops.'" John Mullan

The Brideshead pages

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Thursday, November 27, 2025

The All-too-convenient Indian

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There has been much discussion of the Thomas King affair in my circles. I don't think it has gotten much coverage outside Canada and, ev...

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Two blunt moral truths

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The first is that there is no more dangerous and self-deceiving move in moral thinking than to try and act according to basic decency and c...

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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"... that room in which my mind, forcing itself for hours on end to leave its moorings, to elongate itself upwards so as to take on th...

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Famous Blue Raincoat — the album

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"Smoky sax on the title track? It's a meditation on betrayal and revenge, not a lounge song." That put down is quoted on the ...

Thursday, November 6, 2025

Leonard Cohen

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Tomorrow, November 7 is the anniversary of Leonard Cohen's death. I can't think of any reason why anyone else but me should care b...

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The most troublesome aspect of "empathy" for me

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Sometimes I meet "foodies" for whom the experience of eating good food is really narcissism. They talk, endlessly, about themselv...

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Empathy, feeling good about yourself and virtue ethics

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The church I go to has a serious problem with crime and vandalism. The source of this crime is people who beg for money outside the church....

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