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Fickle Markets and Shrines of Law

November 11, 2015

He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it. 15Then it can be used as fuel. Part of it he …

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Meeting God in Mark, by Rowan Williams

November 18, 2014

Meeting God In Mark, Rowan Williams’ volume based on talks given at Canterbury during 2010, has a carefully chosen title.  …

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Hate Reading and Bad Romance: Reading Honestly

December 20, 2013

This is my third piece about the “integrity” of discourse, sparked by a passage of Rowan Williams.  After I discussed …

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Bad Faith and a Devil’s Advocate: More on Internet Debates

December 15, 2013

In a previous piece, Someone Is Wrong On The Internet, I wrote about the way my weariness with the technical …

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Someone Is Wrong On The Internet: Integrity, Debate and Below The Line

December 14, 2013

“The more logical or rhetorical terms someone uses on the Internet, the less you should listen to them.”  I can’t …

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Identity Politics and Shared Humanity

August 14, 2013

There has been some great discussion resulting from my piece on The Problem With Male Feminists, and I’m really grateful …

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Commonplace: Harriet Vane, Peter Wimsey and T.S. Eliot

January 11, 2013

This post is one in a set which I’ve been meaning to write for some time, under the tag “commonplace”.  …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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