Edmund Burke’s battles with what he saw as the malign interpretations in…
Category: In Passing (page 4)
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…
Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy and the meaning of heroism (Part Two)
Each one of Christopher Nolan’s films is about much more than it…
Christopher Nolan and the quest to understand (Part One)
In this the first of a three part series Michael Kirke examines…
The Power of Goodness and Kindness
There are some unpleasant human experiences, the further they recede in our…
Facing the reality of outer darkness: Foyodor Dostoevsky and Cormac McCarthy
“No English novelist has explored man’s soul as deeply as Dostoevsky”, E.…
One hundred years in the shadow of Babel
The world looked a pretty bleak place in the aftermath of the…
Doctor Zhivago – a masterpiece revisited
Sixty years ago I read Boris Pasternak’s great novel, Doctor Zhivago. I…