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A stray thought: Star Maker was published in the same year as The Hobbit. Stapledon and Tolkien, it seems, were looking in very different directions for enlightenment. Perhaps there is an essay to be made out of such a comparison.

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Following up on our recent exchange of letters about the monarchy, my friend Jamie C. Weir and I had a little chat to hash out our disagreements. Jamie mentioned that perhaps we should have set out our ideological stalls prior to the chat, so I’ll just say here that Jamie is the Burke to my Paine—I think that conveys the essential difference in our outlooks!

Jamie is an evolutionary biologist by profession, with side interests in history (particularly military and constitutional history), philosophy, and politics. His hobbies include reading dusty scientific literature, bemoaning the decline of the West, and hating modern architecture. You can read about his scientific work on his website, and follow his writing on his Substack.

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Allow me to be self-indulgent and share an old Areo Magazine piece of mine. It’s a review of a book in defence of the Western canon in which I refer to Ellison’s universalism as espoused in his preface to Invisible Man. See here.

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As I mention in the reading, I’ll be away for a few weeks on holiday. I’ll be back on October 2.

And as promised, some old favourites.

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A very long but very fun conversation. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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See here for Nathan Alexander’s article on the agnostic/atheist divide being rooted more in Victorian respectability politics than in any substantial philosophical differences. I think this is relevant to the account read above wherein Darwin agrees with atheism but prefers to call himself an agnostic.

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