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The Road From Nazareth To Modern Liberal Democracy

BY RICHARD HARRIES DLT, £12.95 ‘P olitics,” as Richard Harries puts it, “is too important to be left to politicians.” It’s therefore a shame that political apathy and......

Abstract Purity

BY ROGER SCRUTON A ll political philosophy boils down to two basic ideas about human nature – the utopian vision and the tragic vision. Either man is a perfectible animal and we......

Enduring Dignity

BY TRACY KIDDER T here have been many books about the Rwandan genocide in recent years: survivor stories, academic treatises on structural violence and hand-wringing “how could......