THE POLITICAL FLÂNEUR

The Coalition must follow Trump’s lead

Decolonising ends up where, exactly?

On the Beach: The most disturbing novel I have ever read

Overcoming Self-Doubt: Stillness is the Key

Learning About Values from a Potty Mouth

On a mystical journey with Italo Calvino, Marco Polo, and Kublai Khan

The Wisdom of Mr Palomar

Learning Italo Calvino's Literary Oeuvre

On Taste, Sound, and Smell: Calvino's unfinished business

Turgenev: The End History and the Last Serf: or, A Satirical Sketch of Sherwood Anderson

Chekhov: You've gotta laugh or you'd cry!

Oscar Wilde on Contradiction: Learning Unintended Lessons Through Art

Nietzsche and the Death of Socrates

Meta-cognition: How I Read Bloom and Why

On Criticism: Pope. Spawn of the Glorious Revolution

The Inner Civil War of Right and Wrong, Life and Death, and Being and Time, or: How I pine for the me who knew everything