Lovely essay in The Point Magazine by Mana Afsari. Do read it. thepointmag.com/politics/last-…

To what extent do we decide what a work of art means? Nabokov's masterful 'Pale Fire', a novel disguised as a scholarly edition of a poem, deals chiefly with this question, that of interpretation. Some thoughts 👇🏻 medium.com/@guiltandindus…

📚 'Perfection captures the sorry state of things in an era where abundance has brought the opposite of fulfilment. Their wants met, Anna and Tom can’t work out what's left to care about.' Bleak. Great review, though 👏🏻 (The Spectator/Sarah Moorhouse) spectator.co.uk/article/the-ne…

Lovely #poem. (The Spectator)

“The ‘well-adjusted’ person is one who conceals his violent impulses and condones the collective’s concealment of them. The ‘maladjusted’ individual cannot tolerate this concealment.” René Girard.

✍🏻 Like Eliot’s 'The Wasteland', 'To the Lighthouse' deals with the question of fragmentation, of reality seen only partially. A #review 👇🏻 open.substack.com/pub/guiltandin…

We are delighted to host this event in partnership with Committee for Academic Freedom. "Will Trump's Second Presidency Be Good or Bad for Academic Freedom?" Featuring Alan Sokal, Helen Pluckrose, Eric Kaufmann James Orr. March 10, 6pm - 8pm, Maths building. Register below: eventbrite.com/e/will-trumps-…

Harry Readhead Harry Readhead reviews 'Nosferatu' in Cracks in PoMo substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

Read Harry Readhead's review of 'The Brutalist' in Cracks in PoMo substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

✍🏻 Turns out Hitler was jacked to the gills and Wehrmacht tank commanders sped round the Maginot line with clenched teeth and pupils the size of dinner plates. I reviewed 'Blitzed', a book about how meth and madness fuelled the Nazi war machine. guiltandindustry.substack.com/p/blitzed-mein…

'It may be one small step for some women; it does not feel like a giant leap for womankind.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I have a new poem. It's about a chapel, but not really. Thank you Merion West for publishing it. merionwest.com/2025/04/14/a-c…

'Of American poets born after the Civil War, Pound and Eliot have the strongest claim on long attention.' Very good piece in The New Criterion. newcriterion.com/article/ezra-p…

DEBATE: Conservatism vs. Liberalism —James Orr (Cambridge University) vs. Stephen R.C. Hicks (Rockford University) — Three-round debate published in Reason Papers journal Full links here: tinyurl.com/5d5fmpph.

'I do all my work to escape myself. I don't believe in looking into yourself. If you do this, you just discover a lot of shit. The truth is not deep in ourselves. The truth is outside.' — Slavoj Žižek

A lovely #poem by Ben Wilkinson in this week's The Spectator.

Alasdair MacIntyre, who has passed away at the age of 96, was without question one of the most significant philosophers of the 20th century. He recognised the roots of modernity’s moral confusion, writes James Orr👇 buff.ly/60JshgM

Requiescat in pace, Alasdair MacIntyre.

'A culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.' So said Eliot. Some thoughts on his Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. guiltandindustry.substack.com/p/notes-toward…

'The essence of civilisation [is] to allow man to reach his full development, and that this development applies also to the religious dimension.' Some thoughts on Jean Daniélou's 'Prayer as a Political Problem'. guiltandindustry.substack.com/p/prayer-as-a-…