Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
From Terry Eagleton
The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.
Nothing in human life is inherently private.
I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.
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