Archive

Active filters: Tag: Andrew Marr Clear all

Walking the tightrope between cynicism and sincerity

Mar 16, 2016 | Category: Featured

Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Edith Wharton I wrote recently about unscrupulous optimism. Mostly this seems to have been understood as a warning against...

#John Fowles #Carl Sagan #Andrew Marr #cynicism #scepticism

The revolutionary wisdom of the tribe

Mar 12, 2016 | Category: blogging

In A History of the World, Andrew Marr suggests there needs to be a balance between new ideas and what he calls 'the wisdom of the tribe': What is the right balance between state authority and individ...

#Andrew Marr #Neo-traditionalist #revolution

Archive

Walking the tightrope between cynicism and sincerity

The revolutionary wisdom of the tribe

Categories

Tags