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The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam...

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more...

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the...

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from...

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how...

Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating...

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never...

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals a...

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few...

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts and students grow more...

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject...

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the...

With fiction you can talk about plot character and narrative whereas a...

Irish fiction is full of secrets guilty pasts divided identities. It is no...

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from...

The study of history and philosophy accompanied by some acquaintance with...

If history philosophy and so on vanish from academic life what they leave...

It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could...

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith and that Christian and...

In the end the humanities can only be defended by stressing how...

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