Category: Other voices

• Christopher Neve on the humanity of art

  Jul 18

  ‘- and you can never be more happy than your least happy child.’ Christopher Neve, Immortal Thoughts, Late Style in a Time of Plague Christopher Neve died in 2024, aged… more ›

• Contemporary totalitarianism

  Jul 12

  George Orwell died in 1950, and wrote mostly in the context of the struggle of liberal democracy against Nazism and Stalinism. He could hardly have imagined the world in which… more ›

• Maya Angelou on courage

  May 29

  Anderson Cooper: You don’t believe that there was true equality yet. Maya Angelou: Oh, I know there isn’t, and you know there isn’t, and everybody who hears you knows there… more ›

• Kieran Setiya on making a difference

  May 20

  ‘We shouldn’t feel too bad that we feel bad: our guilt is not a mistake. More important, we shouldn’t let it put us off, condemning our own efforts as too… more ›

• T. H. White on learning

  Mar 2

  ‘The best thing for being sad,’ replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, ‘is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and… more ›