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Updated on Jun 21, 15
Created on Mar 22, 09
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Guy Cools's List: Literature
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Jun 21, 15
Francesca Klug’s new book offers an insight into why the human-rights project has failed to garner public support.
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Oct 11, 14
Joel Kotkin nails the anti-masses Clerisy that now dominates the US.
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Jul 25, 14
'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' is a thoroughly uninspiring, data-heavy dirge.
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Apr 13, 14
Robert Colls' superb 'intellectual biography' takes the reader into the liberty-loving, rebellious, and contrary heart of George Orwell.
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Nov 09, 13
David Chandler’s Freedom vs Necessity dissects the way governments offer us choice today - as long as we make the ‘right’ choice.
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Apr 27, 13
A new book challenges Britain’s bureaucratically endorsed culture of entitlement and dependency, but the author’s behaviour-changing solutions are just as paternalistic.
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Apr 27, 13
From the high point of Martin Luther King's March on Washington to lowly modern campaigns to ban 'sexist' ladies' nights in bars and clubs - how far the civil-rights ideal has fallen.
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Apr 27, 13
No wonder Andrew Simms and other greens are always fantasising about Earth's end: they can't stand Earth's inhabitants.
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Apr 06, 13
Rupert Darwall’s history of the idea of global warming shows how the belief in an impending manmade apocalypse emanated from the top of wealthy Western societies.
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Mar 03, 13
The movement to make museums the focus for work around social justice and human rights can only undermine their main purpose: the curation and display of objects.
by Wendy Earle -
Mar 02, 13
Christopher Lasch was a fearless iconoclast who defied left and right labels. Love him or loathe him, you need to grapple with his ideas if you want to understand today’s big political and moral debates.
by Sean Collins -
Feb 11, 13
On the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, the cool cynicism and snobbery of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar has gone mainstream.
by Tim Black -
Dec 27, 12
In a fascinating examination of the consumerised state of higher education, Joanna Williams sheds light where other analyses have emitted only heat.
by Tim Black -
Dec 27, 12
Everyone talks about the impact, whether good or bad, of the tumultuous Sixties - but two in-depth books about that decade say and reveal more than most.
by Jennie Bristow -
Dec 27, 12
Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men shouldn’t be read as a cast-iron prediction of a newly gendered future, but rather as the raiser of important questions about the crisis of masculinity.
by Nancy McDermott -
Dec 27, 12
As Wired for Culture demonstrates, the greatest intellectual threats posed to freedom and autonomy today are those put up by evolutionary biologists and psychologists
by Angus Kennedy -
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