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Book Review: A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary by Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton taught us How to Read Proust, gave us The Art of Travel and now spends a week in an airport.
Read More »Interview: Poet Matthew Lippman, Author of The New Year of Yellow
Boston dad reveals his secrets of literary success
Read More »James Cameron’s Avatar: Philosophical Roots
Holy Gaia, Margaret Mead! Let's all bow down and worship stone age people.
Read More »Book Review: The Noticer by Andy Andrews
If you are still breathing, there is hope.
Read More »Politics and Ethics: Moral Foundations of a Just State
Wittgenstein showed us that morality is grounded in our language and form of life. Locke and Aristotle provide the missing link.
Read More »Book Review: The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley
An enjoyable read and reference book.
Read More »Book Review: Letter To A Hostage by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Details the essential invisible things that make life so special.
Read More »Book Review: Unjust Justice by Chantal Delsol
In our eagerness to see justice done we run the serious risk of committing a serious injustice.
Read More »Book Review: His Dark Materials: Special Omnibus Edition by Philip Pullman
A wild and woolly trip around an imaginary universe... not an easy read, but the most intelligent books of their kind I've ever read.
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