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Oct 14, 2025
It’s a busy time for the world’s most famous defender of Enlightenment liberalism. The Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, a co-founder of his university’s Council...
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Sep 24, 2025
The age of print
It was one of the most important revolutions in modern history — and yet no blood was spilled, no bombs were thrown and no monarch was beheaded.
Perhaps no...
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Jun 25, 2025
‘I write to find out what I’m thinking” ran the motto of the great American journalist Joan Didion. Anybody whose job involves them to whatever degree in the...
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Jun 13, 2025
English literature – so it seemed to me when I was a bookish zealot of 18 – was the prince of the humanities. When I was interviewed at Oxford and asked why I wanted to...
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Jun 10, 2025
I love reading and I love advice about how to read. I’m especially fond of these columns about how to read by Rob Henderson from his Substack and Janan...
Oct 14, 2025It’s a busy time for the world’s most famous defender of Enlightenment liberalism. The Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, a co-founder of his university’s Council...
Sep 24, 2025The age of print It was one of the most important revolutions in modern history — and yet no blood was spilled, no bombs were thrown and no monarch was beheaded. Perhaps no...
Jun 25, 2025‘I write to find out what I’m thinking” ran the motto of the great American journalist Joan Didion. Anybody whose job involves them to whatever degree in the...
Jun 10, 2025I love reading and I love advice about how to read. I’m especially fond of these columns about how to read by Rob Henderson from his Substack and Janan...