Chomsky at the Ryerson Q&A (1988) shown in Manufacturing Consent
Noam Chomsky participated in a Q&A at Ryerson University in 1988, related to his delivery of the 1988 CBC Massey Lectures. He was interviewed by a panel made up of David Frum (of the ‘axis of evil’ speech-writing fame), Stuart McLean (of the Vinyl Cafe), [...]
From The End of Virtuous Albion, (on the British National Character), by Theodore Dalrymple (originally published in the New Criterion, 1 September 2005):
On walking through the hospital in which I formerly practiced, I came across the husband of a patient of mine who had always accompanied her to her appointments. He was sitting down and [...]
While Kate Blanchette in armour and on horseback, with long red hair flowing from her wigged scalp, looking a good twenty years younger than her supposed age of 55 (which in 16th Century terms is a miracle) is visually resplendent, it captures nothing of the woman who wrote Monsieur’s Departure.
Queen Elizabeth on horseback at the [...]
Goodreads | 2007 week 42 number 6 (Doris Lessing Selection)
From Doris Lessing’s introduction to The Golden Notebook (June 1971):
To get the subject of Women’s Liberation over with – I support it, of course, because women are second-class citizens, as they are saying energetically and competently in many countries. It can be said that they [...]
All the world’s a stage, and all of its art has become set design.
Chasing Transcendence: The Self – Oct 16, 2007
The Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture Series
Bas C. van Fraassen
Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Whenever we reflect upon ourselves, we quickly end up in difficulty. As the philosopher Wittgenstein quipped, “I am not a thing, but I am not nothing.” The Transcendent Self is not just a myth – but [...]