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Understanding the 'pretender ideology'
How woke rules our institutions without capturing our hearts
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Dolan Cummings
Karen
A short story for Easter
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Dolan Cummings
Shibboleths, ‘badge words’ and the need for lexical charity
Our choice of words says more than we sometimes mean
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Dolan Cummings
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Liberal modernity and the three Fs
There is nothing post-liberal, or pre-modern, about faith, flag and family
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Dolan Cummings
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The trouble with the history of ideas
.. or ‘No, Jean-Jacques Rousseau does not have a lot to answer for’
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Dolan Cummings
In praise of the aged
Old people belong to the present, not to the past
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Dolan Cummings
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Life is not a laboratory
On serendipity, decision-making and the romance of reality
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Dolan Cummings
The limits of critical thinking
Doubt is just one of the intellectual virtues
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Dolan Cummings
In praise of praise
How the right words at the right moment affirm our humanity
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Dolan Cummings
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L'esprit de l'escalier
Essays looking behind and beyond the long shadow of the 20th century

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