Arts & Letters Daily (14 Aug 2010):
Americans, plugged in and on the move, are confiding in their pets, their laptops, and their spouses. But more and more, they are loners... more
Institutions progress but human beings don't, says Roger Scruton, and the human capacity for cruelty and violence is, alas, infinite... more
Molière, the shape-shifter extraordinaire of the 17th century, became in time a playwright of huge political value - rather like Albert Camus in our own day... more
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