Why is it so hard to get rid of our books?
We are inordinately attached to these markers of ego and past selves. But in truth they can undermine — rather than underline — identity
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Nothing New Under the Sun
A long time ago, in what seems like a galaxy far, far away, a much younger version of myself would take his musty wine-red faux-velvet seat in Folkestone’s Curzon Cinema, ready to be immersed in whatever the curtains opened to reveal.
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Let’s Be Reasonable
As an ideal to aspire to, the requirement that beliefs be properly justified is entirely laudable. The problem is that Messrs. Nadler and Shapiro repeatedly overstate philosophy’s ability to help us meet this challenge and underestimate the reasons other than willful stubbornness why our reasoning often goes wrong.
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The perils and pitfalls of ethical consumerism
No one who complains about the sins of big business can spend their money without any thought as to where it will end up. The question should not be whether to aspire to be an ethical consumer, but how to become the right kind.
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The moralising spy next door
The idea of the home as self-contained and autonomous is as much of a myth as the fantasy of national exceptionalism and self-sufficiency. Much of what we do in our own homes is rightly a concern to other people simply because there is such a thing as society — and homeowners are members of it.
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