Is there any real distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ pleasures?
Does it matter whether our pleasures are spiritual or carnal, intellectual or stupid? Or are all pleasures pretty much the same?
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Is the Church of England dancing with the devil?
The Church of England has said “we take the view that it is most effective to be in the room with these companies seeking change as a shareholder.” Is this moral sophistication or mere self-serving sophistry?
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Do you think what you think you think?
We should stop treating instantaneity as the mark of authenticity. What we find at the tips of our tongues or our fingers does not necessarily most deeply reflect who we are.
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Think before you drink – then drink
I intend to make the whole of September, and perhaps even the rest of the year, my “festival of 50”[…]
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Rituals of grief help us all
Communal commemorations may take arbitrary or even baffling forms, but they have an important role to play in civic life.
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