The Past Can Be Used

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 A More General Problem Of How The Liberal State Deals With Its Anti-liberal Enemies.

What's Wrong With A Bit Of Nostalgia Between Friends? I Think Nostalgia Sometimes Gets Too Much Of A Bad Press.

Like All The Best Radical Positions, Then, Mine Is A Thoroughly Traditionalist One.

Schizophrenic Language Has In This Sense An Interesting Resemblance To Poetry.

It Is In Rousseau's Writing Above All That History Begins To Turn From Upper-class Honour To Middle-class Humanitarianism. Pity, Sympathy And Compassion Lie At The Centre Of His Moral Vision. Values Associated With The Feminine Begin To Infiltrate Social Existence As A Whole, Rather Than Being Confined To The Domestic Sphere.