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Taking a break from my life as a nurse to say that I’m currently listening to Ethan Iverson’s Playfair Sonatas — though “currently” means “when my head finally falls on the pillow.” I think this may well be my Record of the Year for 2024. 🎵

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I wrote about the two major reasons to extend tolerance towards ideas you disagree with.

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The Architectural Drawings at All Souls College, Oxford: Wren and Hawksmoor

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Each of the six volumes of Churchill’s history of the second world war has a Theme. Here’e the one for the final volume.

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Stuart Ritchie: “As ever, you have to wonder whether the field of Alzheimer’s research has a disproportionate level of bad science, or whether it’s just getting disproportionate attention and all fields are like that.”

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One day he was so happy, so healthy, and the next….


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In Christianity Today my colleague SJ Murray has an essay on why Christians need to rediscover Boethius. See also her very cool Boethius Project.

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I wrote about memory, gratitude, and story.

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The tiniest hint of autumn here