In the hope of finding some glimmer of hope and optimism I…
Category: In Passing (page 3)
Endgame?
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but…
A Howling Emptiness
Is this a metaphor for the narcissistic destruction of our civilisation? A…
Faustian temptations and Promethean dreams
Do we live in the best of times or do we live…
The Journey of T.S. Eliot – Part II
In August 1919 Eliot was still battling with the ideas and the…
The Journey of Thomas Stearns Eliot – Part I
A cold coming he had of it. First there was the sterile…
Edmund Burke and the War on the Origins of Secularism – Part II: the delusion of ‘secularism triumphant’
Edmund Burke’s battles with what he saw as the malign interpretations in…
Edmund Burke and the War on the Origins of Secularism – Part I: the delusion of ‘secularism triumphant’
The forward march of secularism may seem to be a relentless one.…
Christopher Nolan’s Universe (Part Three)
This is the third and final part of a series on the…