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Yearly Archives: 2007
The blessings of freedom
The Wall Street Journal of all places, has an article about mercenaries which suggests to me that we have made no progress since the Middle Ages at all. Here are the two meatiest paragraphs: Only two contractors out of the … Continue reading Continue reading
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Another hack at a dead horse
Oh for fuck’s sake Dawkins! “If, as one self-consciously intellectual critic wished, I had expounded the epistemological differences between Aquinas and Duns Scotus, Eriugena on subjectivity, Rahner on grace or Moltmann on hope (as he vainly hoped I would), my … Continue reading Continue reading
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Blair’s real legacy
I was talking the other night to a defence intellectual: I mean an ex army officer who now lectures at a college for real ones. He’s an old, not close, friend, and was pretty drunk as well, so I have … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in British politics, War
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Short sillies
At last, I’ve found where GNER buys their coffee though there’s nothing on that site about the importance of serving it tepid. I suppose that’s self-evident, when you click through. Band names that don’t quite make it: “And you shall … Continue reading Continue reading
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Stop me before I code again
As usual at the end of a long project, I suddenly feel an urge to do all the things I haven’t been doing even if many of them also involve sitting at a computer and typing. In particular, I have … Continue reading Continue reading
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In partibus infidelium
I will be in Princeton and — for at least one day — New York City next week, arriving on the evening of Wednesday 16th and leaving in the late afternoon of Sunday 20th. This is, of course, a work … Continue reading Continue reading
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Feeding the hungry
I looked at my stats the other day, and realised that I get something like 1800 visitors a day; more than 2000 when I am writing a lot here. So I feel I owe you something (you all owe me, … Continue reading Continue reading
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More mediaeval horror
The real point of all this, though, was to remember just how ghastly the middle ages were, and, by extension, just how ghastly various places around the world are right now, some, at least, as a result of our interventions. … Continue reading Continue reading
An early example of lay participation
in the affairs of the Catholic Church: Du Guesclin, having completed his levies, led the army first to Avignon, where the pope thea resided, and demanded, sword in hand, an absolution for his soldiers, and the sum of 200,000 livres. … Continue reading Continue reading
Hume meets a modern business leader
I forget who this was, but it is interesting that these are exactly, it seems to me, the character traits celebrated in modern American business: He was courteous, affable, engaging, eloquent; full of insinuation and address; inexhaustible in his resources; … Continue reading Continue reading
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