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notes and comment
Equestrian Man examines the horsey rural scene, with excerpts from various writers including Steele Rudd and J. Frank Dobie.
Artists and Politics looks at the architect Oscar Niemeyer, a man who declared "I never pay any heed. I do what I like and not what others like"—while Paul Muldoon tells us every poem is part of every other poem, and shows their connections.
All over the semi-developed world Clan Politics are a problem, in Ukraine and among the Saudi Royals as well as in Africa.
Margaret Mead Today reviews and synopsises the sensible things this famous anthropologist had to say about tribal modernization after World War II.
The Darwin Archive defines the elements of Darwinian thought as set out by Ernst Mayr, while Science and the Greeks claims that serious science began in classical Greece and nowhere else.
The fragment Gibbon on Liberty argues that the division of Europe into a number of independent states is a lastingly beneficial arrangement—not something to be lightly thrown away.
A Note on Language examines the linguistic/philosophical thinking of Lewis Mumford, Ray Tallis, Paul Davies, and J. G. Roederer, while The Times Literary Supplement considers some of that paper's more egregious failings in recent times.
How people put up with politicians is mysterious, but Lunch Recipe suggests that eating with them may not be a great idea. How anyone put up with Steve Irwin is just as mysterious: it's not surprising that when The Lone Stingray came it shot him right in the chest.
Two people who still look good, regardless of both politicians and pesky wildlife celebrities, are Bill Evans on piano and Billie Holiday on song: her Write to the Browns remains inimitable.
Introduction - Notes and Comment -
George Steiner - Notes and Comment - Jun 2008
John Searle - Notes and Comment - Jun 2008
Moral Sentiments - Notes and Comment - Jun 2008
John Ruskin and Pixelation - Notes and Comment - Apr 2008
Rock, water, cloud - Notes and Comment - Apr 2008
Johann Le Guillerm - Notes and Comment - Feb 2008
Chuckout Time - Notes and Comment - Dec 2007
Chekhov's Tears - Notes and Comment - Dec 2007
Science News - Notes and Comment - Dec 2007
Three Poems - Notes and Comment - Dec 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Notes and Comment - Oct 2007
Civility - Notes and Comment - Aug 2007
All Flesh is Grass - Notes and Comment - Aug 2007
Macbeth - Notes and Comment - Aug 2007
Idyll Six - Notes and Comment - Aug 2007
Youth Movement - Notes and Comment - Aug 2007
Rory Stewart on Iraq - Notes and Comment - Aug 2007
Music Teacher - Notes and Comment - Aug 2007
The Peacock at Alderton - Notes and Comment - Aug 2007
Bondi Beach - Notes and Comment - Jun 2007
Paul Muldoon - Notes and Comment - Apr 2007
Voyeurismo - Notes and Comment - Feb 2007
Xenophon - Notes and Comment - Dec 2006
Voltaire and Shakespeare - Notes and Comment - Dec 2006
Human Rights - Notes and Comment - Dec 2006
The Big Issues - Notes and Comment - Oct 2006
Stingrays - Notes and Comment - Oct 2006
The Humanities - Notes and Comment - Oct 2006
Bondi Beach Toilets - Notes and Comment - Oct 2006
Up the Nile - Notes and Comment - Oct 2006
Eugene Delacroix - Notes and Comment - Aug 2006
Bedlam Europe - Notes and Comment - Jun 2006
Lunch Recipe - Notes and Comment - Jun 2006
At the Movies, Hidden - Notes and Comment - Jun 2006
Equestrian Man - Notes and Comment - May 2006
Jottings - Notes and Comment - Apr 2006
A Note on Language - Notes and Comment - Mar 2006
The Cost of Truth - Notes and Comment - Feb 2006
The Times Literary Supplement - Notes and Comment - Jan 2006
Dover Beach - Notes and Comment - Jan 2006
Art and Gigantism - Notes and Comment - Dec 2005
Inside the Labyrinth - Notes and Comment - Nov 2005
Bill Evans - Notes and Comment - Nov 2005
Saudi Royals - Notes and Comment - Nov 2005
At the Art Gallery - Notes and Comment - Oct 2005
Civilized Medicine - Notes and Comment - Sep 2005
Gibbon on Liberty - Notes and Comment - Sep 2005
Portraits and People - Notes and Comment - Aug 2005
Science and the Greeks - Notes and Comment - Aug 2005
Clan Politics - Notes and Comment - Aug 2005
General Gareth Evans - Notes and Comment - Jul 2005
Captive Readers and Tellers of Tales - Notes and Comment - Jun 2005
God Bless the Turks - Notes and Comment - Jul 2005
Maharajas - Notes and Comment - Jun 2005
Doctor Kakatoscopy - Notes and Comment - Jun 2005
Glory, Jest, Riddle - Notes and Comment - May 2005
Artists and Politics - Notes and Comment - May 2005
Margaret Mead Today - Notes and Comment - May 2005
Rough Diamond - Notes and Comment - May 2005
Thoughts on China - Notes and Comment - April 2005
At the Movies, Look at Me - Notes and Comment - Apr 2005
At the Movies, The Motorcycle Diaries - Notes and Comment - Apr 2005
Truly Endangered Species - Notes and Comment - Apr 2005
After Fidel - Notes and Comment - Apr 2005
Berlin and Auschwitz - Notes and Comment - Feb 2005
At the Movies, Alexander - Notes and Comment - Feb 2005
Write to the Browns - Notes and Comment - Mar 2005
The Iraq Election - Notes and Comment - Jan 2005
The Future of Swearing - Notes and Comment - Jan 2005
Pleasure and Balderdash - Notes and Comment - Jan 2005
Robert Kagan and Iraq - Notes and Comment - Dec 2004
Sudan-the Untold Story - Notes and Comment - Nov 2004
Czeslaw Milosz - Notes and Comment - Nov 2004
Images for Our Time - Notes and Comment - Nov 2004
The Darwin Archive - Notes and Comment - Nov 2004
Accessory Before the Act - Notes and Comment - Nov 2004
Rightly is they Called Pigs - Notes and Comment - Nov 2004
The Green World - Notes and Comment - Nov 2004
Duo Sol - Notes and Comment - Nov 2004
Rich, Complex, and Sophisticated - Notes and Comment - Nov 2004
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