johnshaplin

2010 What we’ve grown accustomed to is a split between leftist political commitments and the most vibrant, experimental dance music. ...

Isaiah Berlin’s account of his conversations with Boris Pasternak provides a ‘nutshell’ summary of Ernst Junger’s view of the war in pr...

Some Embarrassing Questions The usual answer to this question admits no doubt: liberalism is the tradition of thought whose central c...

[ The presentations in this Blog try to avoid the handiworks of the reviewers’ arts, the cliché’s of praise or blame, aesthetic theory, ...

Journalists’ fly-by-night trade, as long as it lasts, is to outdo one another in snooping, conjecturing, and snatching whatever they ca...

Few apocalyptic millenarians live to see the promised apocalypse, let alone the millennium. Isaiah, Jesus, Muhammad, Karl Marx, and most ...

Writing some twenty years ago, Gerald Helman and Steven Ratner decried  ‘a disturbing new phenomena: ‘the failed nation-state’ characteri...