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November 17, 2008

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Published on November 17, 2008 17:50

Public Speaking Engagements

Public Engagements, November 28, 2008. Conference begins at 10.30am on the theme of 'God and Good' organized at Heythrop College, Kensington Square, London W8 5HQ. Day long program. I speak at 5pm on 'Goodness and Incarnation'.To register please e-mail: f.ellis (at) heythrop.ac.uk. Attendance fee of £20 (£5 concessions) is payable and lunch and refreshments are included.
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Published on November 17, 2008 17:15

Can virtual life take over from real life?

The Sunday Times, 16th November 2008The medium is the message, Marshall McLuhan famously said. And by changing the message we change ourselves. Never has this observation been so relevant as it is today, when many people spend their days at the computer, conducting friendships through Facebook and MySpace, posting videos on their websites, going into real society shielded by an iPod, or simply
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Published on November 17, 2008 17:11

November 12, 2008

Past Public Engagements

Past Public Engagements, November 12th, 2008 at 6pm: lecture on 'The Defence of the West and how to respond to the Islamist challenge' at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington D.C. Venue: The Madison Hotel, 1177 15th Street NW. Washington, DC.October 31st, 2008 at 11 am: Newman Lecture organized by The Institute for the Psychological Sciences where I am also currently teaching. The
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Published on November 12, 2008 17:47

November 2, 2008

The Return of Religion

Axess Magazine, 2008Faced with the spectacle of the cruelties perpetrated in the name of faith, Voltaire famously cried 'Ecrasez l'infâme!'. Scores of enlightened thinkers followed him, declaring organised religion to be the enemy of mankind, the force that divides the believer from the infidel and which thereby both excites and authorises murder. Richard Dawkins is the most influential living
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Published on November 02, 2008 20:52

September 29, 2008

Mark Rothko: 1961 Tranquil, transcendent. 2008 Routine, repetitive

The Times, 26 September 2008Sometime in the early summer of 1961 the Whitechapel Gallery staged an exhibition of Mark Rothko, then quite recently famous, and well into what is known as his "signature style": large, unframed canvases of vertical format, painted with symmetrical rectangular blocks of contrasting colours. Rothko had hit on this idiom some 14 years before, when he often used the
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Published on September 29, 2008 12:45

August 6, 2008

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: reflections

open Democracy, 5 August 2008Alexander Solzhenitsyn, like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy, combined the gifts of a novelist with the stature and ambitions of a prophet. He may not have matched their achievements as a writer of imaginative prose, but he was their equal when it came to insight into evil and its collective manifestation. Moreover his literary monument - The Gulag Archipelago - was
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Published on August 06, 2008 13:10

September 13, 2007

Keep high and dry

New Statesman, 13th September 2007Our community, high on its ridge above the Vale of the White Horse, was luckier than many. The refugees from Gloucestershire told a sorry tale of waterlogged barns and spoiled crops, in the midst of which their abandoned houses stood like tombstones on their own ghostly reflections, solitary perches for the magpies and the crows. We were shivering from the worst
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Published on September 13, 2007 03:26

August 28, 2007

Art, Duty, and Judgement

American Spectator, 28th August 2007A CENTURY AGO MARCEL DUCHAMP signed a urinal with the name "R. Mutt," entitled it "La Fontaine," and exhibited it as a work of art. One immediate result of Duchamp's joke was to precipitate an intellectual industry devoted to answering the question "What is art?" The literature of this industry is as empty as the neverending imitations of Duchamp's gesture.
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Published on August 28, 2007 03:04

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