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Tag Archives: Book review

15 Oct
Philosophy & Psychology

Steven Pinker’s insights on how ‘common knowledge’ shapes our individual lives and societies

  • 15/10/2025
  • By author-avatar Jamie Roberts
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I don’t know about you, but ever since I can remember – from my early teens – I have been bemused about the endless rituals we humans p...

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10 Oct
History

Inquiry versus polemic in grappling with history and language

  • 18/10/2025
  • By author-avatar Paul Monk
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Suppose you were in an English language class and your teacher or professor insisted that the use of language in all old books, going b...

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17 Sep
History

Blainey’s ‘quiet classic’ on war and peace

  • 15/10/2025
  • By author-avatar Paul Monk
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Geoffrey Blainey is 95 – a venerable age. He remains lucid and productive even so – rather like David Attenborough, who, at 99, has jus...

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06 Feb
Ethics & Religion

Robert Harris, Edward Berger and the Vatican

  • 15/10/2025
  • By author-avatar Paul Monk
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Robert Harris is a gifted historical novelist, whose work spans millennia on topics from ancient Rome (Imperium, Pompeii, Dictator) to ...

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04 Apr
Ethics & Religion

Hardaker’s take on the rise and fall of Hillsong and Houston

  • 04/04/2024
  • By author-avatar Rosie Clare Shorter
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Hillsong was first formed in 1983 by Brian and Bobbie Houston as the “decidedly functional, even dowdy” The Hills Christian Life Centre...

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13 Feb
Law & Politics

The imperfect union of two presidents

  • 13/02/2023
  • By author-avatar Reg Naulty
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Joe Biden's relationship with Barack Obama, as explored by Gabriel Debenedetti in The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Bide...

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24 Dec
History

Gorbachev’s appeal for peace and freedom

  • 13/02/2023
  • By author-avatar Reg Naulty
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As a world statesman and a student of world affairs, Mikhail Gorbachev’s perspective is worth having. His 2019 book, What Is at Stake N...

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07 Jul
Law & Politics

Reason and unreason in the critique of Western civilisation

  • 13/02/2023
  • By author-avatar Paul Monk
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Douglas Murray is a wonderfully free spirit who lucidly tackles the manias of political correctness with erudition, panache and limpid ...

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09 Apr
Law & Politics

A review: The struggle for India’s soul

  • 13/02/2023
  • By author-avatar Reg Naulty
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What precipitated Shashi Tharoor’s new book, The Struggle for India’s Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy, is the path t...

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