Fragments for the End of Life
Justin Hawkins
There have always been many ways of dying badly.
Our inability to switch off our commonsense intuitions will lead us to adopt some odd, half-formed ideologies.
Cricket is surely the perfect corrective for a TikTok generation.
The ten thousand photographs stored on a cellphone are a dramatic refutation of my photographic diffidence.
How does one deal with the “trees and forests” complexity of a career like David Tracy’s?
Capitalism has been a form of enchantment, a metamorphosis of the sacred in the raiment of secularity. With money as its ontological marrow, it represents a moral and metaphysical imagination as well as a sublimation of our desire for the presence of divinity in the everyday world.
We still live in the post-Westphalian era, licking the as yet unhealed wounds the cuius regio.
Vargas Llosa elucidates the well-known rogue’s gallery of problems facing the West.