Reviews
“The Irrepressible Intellectual” Michael Scammell’s Koestler and the responsibilities of thinking men.
“Glum Prophecies of the Lasch” Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and why it is more relevant than ever.
“Oakeshott and Scepticism” Caution, contentment and creativity in Michael Oakeshott’s Rationalism in Politics.
“Nightmares of an Eminent Person” Ray Monk’s Bertrand Russell: The Ghosts of Madness and the unreasonable “rationality” of a progressive.
“The Abstract and the Actual” Murray Rothbard’s Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays and absurd abstractions of libertarianism.
“Captive Minds” Czesław Miłosz’s The Captive Mind and totalitarian temptations.
“Truth, Imagination and Imperfection” Pierre Ryckmans’ defence of culture.
Essays
“Conservatism and Capitalism” On an essentially uneasy relationship.
“The Perils of Being an Intellectual Outlaw” Doing contrarianism well.
“Towards an Inquistive Agnosticism”, God, religion and me.
“Orwell Against Modernity” Orwell’s conservatism.
“Christopher Hitchens Remembered” The memoirs and work of a public intellectual.
“Human Nature Contra Ayn Rand” Against the objectivists.
“The Public School in the Progressive Imagination” On progressivism as revenge against masters and prefects.
“Conservatism and the Case of the Christian Democrats” How not to maintain a civilised society.
Wandering Near Sawtry 