The mistake the contemporary secularist makes is to think these humane, tolerant and liberal insights can easily be separated from their religious foundations. The folly of this idea can be seen both in the catastrophe of communism and in the progressive fantasies of secular liberalism. The point is that it is religion - if only in the very broad sense of an awareness of one's closeness to the unknown and the unknowable - that keeps one humble, modest and innoculated against utopian excesses - Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times, 25/03/06
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On Humanity
The RSA recently gathered a high-profile panel of speakers to explore the hidden agendas behind our values and attitudes toward the place of ‘the human’ in today’s societies, and debate what must now be a key issue for the 21st century.
On The Waste Land
The Wasteland and Modernity tried to figure out whether someone who captured modern life so well could really dislike it so much. When he stared out at a world of radio and cinema, of radical art and universal suffrage, did T.S. Eliot really see only a barren, featureless plain?
On The Divine Comedy
Is it possible to appreciate fully Dante’s work without understanding the man himself and the society in which he lived? A recent book attempted to shed new light on what some have called "the greatest of all European poems".