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- It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
- Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.
- For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
- I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is…
- It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the…
- Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around…
- One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but…
- ... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale.…
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