The Measure of Progress – Counting What Really Matters
The author is Professor of Public Policy in the University of Cambridge, and asks why we still use 80-year-old metrics – GDP – to understand…… Read More »
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The Study – The Inner Life of the Renaissance Libraries
I recently spent a month at our family home in Scotland, and one of the great pleasures was sitting in the evening by the fire…… Read More »
RADICAL WHOLENESS: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
Philip Shepherd is unusual; at the age of 18, he relinquished a place to read physics at the University of Toronto, took a cheap flight…… Read More »
THE END OF AN AGE
Dean WR Inge (1860-1954) – as he was known – was one of the great thinkers of his time, also a public intellectual publishing many…… Read More »
They Built the Earth
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The UFO Paradox
As a currently widening out contentious issue, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), or better, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) have for the past eight decades either stirred…… Read More »
The Question of an Unworthy Life – Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century
This landmark study traces the dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the late 19th century, focusing especially on the Nazi genocide between 1939…… Read More »
On Gaslighting
The origin of this now familiar term goes back to a 1944 film, and this searching philosophical study investigates it as a distinctive moral phenomenon…… Read More »
UFO of God
Our recent Galileo meeting in Italy was attended by a number of experts on what is now called the UAP phenomenon at a time when…… Read More »
Inkblot Moon: The Complete Quantum Poetry
In this profound and evocative book, Marcus takes us on a vertical journey inwards with his poetry and contextual commentary. At the beginning, he writes:…… Read More »