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John Gray: The Friedrich Hayek I knew, and what he got right - and wrong Hayek’s most striking intellectual trait was one uncommon in academic life – independence of mind, which enabled him to swim against some of the most powerful currents of the age. by John Gray New Statesman Published 30 July, 2015 - 18:30 Habsburg legacy: Hayek was born in Vienna in 1899, into an ..

Dying art by Malcolm Forbes The New Criterion June 2015 A review of Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society by Mario Vargas Llosa, John King In his essay “Culture and Anarchy,” Matthew Arnold defines culture “as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.” Those in pursuit of human perfection—those who aim to b..

Landspeak by Robert Macfarlane Orion Magazine May 13, 2015 For over a decade I have been collecting place-words: gleaned singly from conversations, correspondences, or books, and jotted down in journals or on slips of paper. Now and then I have hit buried treasure in the form of vernacular dictionaries or extraordinary people—troves that have held gleaming handfuls of coi..

PETER SCHJELDAHL with Jarrett Earnest The Brooklyn Rail, July 13, 2015 In the pantheon of art writers Peter Schjeldahl holds a special place near the top as one of our greatest living critics. He entered the New York scene in the ’60s, a poet and college dropout escaping a Lutheran upbringing in Minnesota. Over the decades his language has remained surprisingly fresh and unf..

Daniel Kahneman: ‘What would I eliminate if I had a magic wand? Overconfidence’ The psychologist and bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow reveals his new research and talks about prejudice, fleeing the Nazis, and how to hold an effective meeting ‘Organisations are essentially factories for making decision’ … Daniel Kahneman. Photograph: Richard Saker David S..

Annals of Annals July 27, 2015 Issue Joe Gould’s Teeth . By Jill Lepore The New Yorker Table of Contents Joseph Mitchell thought that Gould’s Oral History didn’t exist. He was wrong. One woman sent Mitchell a notebook of Gould’s from 1923. “I have trunks full!” she wrote. Credit Photograph by William Mebane; From Left to Right: Courtesy Fales Library, N.Y.U.; Phili..

Why are there so few women philosophers? DAVID PAPINEAU Katrina Hutchison and Fiona Jenkins, editors WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY What needs to change? 271pp. Oxford University Press. Paperback, £16.99 (US $24.95). 978 0 19 932562 7 The Times Literary Supplement Published: 15 July 2015 Iris Murdoch, 1993 Photograph: © David Gamble/TopFoto Women occupy 25 per cent of the posts ..

Why College Kids Are Avoiding the Study of Literature by Gary Saul Morson Commentary 07.01.15 - 12:00 AM Go to just about any English department at any university, gather round the coffee pot, and listen to what one of my colleagues calls the Great Kvetch. It is perfectly summarized by the opening sentence of the philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s recent book: “We are in the mid..

Defining Beauty: the Body in Ancient Greek Art By Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis History Today Posted 17th June 2015, 8:43 Marble statue of a naked Aphrodite crouching at her bath, also known as Lely’s Venus. Roman copy of a Greek original, 2nd century AD. Height 120cm. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015 Defining Beauty: the Body in Ancient Greek Ar..

World’s most inaccessible art found in the heart of the Colombian jungle By Dalva Alberge The Observer Saturday 20 June 2015 12.37 BST Last modified on Sunday 21 June 2015 00.01 BST Prehistoric paintings on vertical rock face in wilderness photographed and filmed for the first time Images of rock art that could be 20,000 years old, found in Chiribiquete national park, Colomb..