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Comment on How to Beat Sir Humphrey: Every Citizen’s Guide to Fighting Officialdom by Antony Jay by How to Be a Civil Servant by Martin Stanley « To Bed With a Trollope

How to Be a Civil Servant by Martin Stanley « To Bed With a Trollope — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:00:27 +0000

[...] occasional observations of a contemporary historian, editor, writer, and bibliophile. « How to Beat Sir Humphrey: Every Citizen’s Guide to Fighting Officialdom by Antony Jay A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by [...]

Comment on Wittgenstein’s Poker by David Edmonds and John Eidinow by Autobiography by Bertrand Russell « To Bed With a Trollope

Autobiography by Bertrand Russell « To Bed With a Trollope — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:12:04 +0000

[...] his influence appears in the writings of later logicians, mathematicians, and philosophers such as Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Even after he became the third Earl Russell upon the death of his elder brother in the early [...]

Comment on About This Site by jp

jp — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:44:36 +0000

it helped alot, thanks you!

Comment on About This Site by tobedwithatrollope

tobedwithatrollope — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:26:58 +0000

I’ve just posted a page with appropriate citation information — I hope this helps!

Comment on About This Site by jp

jp — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:49:18 +0000

whats your name, I’m writing a research paper, id like to give credit where credit is due.

Comment on Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum by Orwell in Spain and Orwell and the Dispossessed (edited by Peter Davison) « To Bed With a Trollope

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:12:49 +0000

[...] as diverse as the poor of India and Morocco, British schoolchildren, and the unfairly persecuted P.G. Wodehouse. And although the theme of this volume is not quite as solid and unified as that of Orwell and [...]

Comment on The American Political Tradition and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter by Jennifer Brownell

Jennifer Brownell — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:10:23 +0000

When I read this book for the purposes of an undergraduate class in intellectual history, I noticed in particular that Hofstadter gives very little attention to the real philosophical analysis that some notable Americans gave to traditional ideas of intellectualism. For instance, the word pragmatism is not even in the index, and he gives William James little more than three meaningless quotes. By making anti-intellectualism a “phenomenon” of the masses, he steals from it any credibility of having been well thought out or analyzed. He gives the title of “narrow-minded” to a group that honestly gave anti-intellectualism a great deal of thought.

Comment on The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan by tobedwithatrollope

tobedwithatrollope — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:07:23 +0000

The links to other pages (including my ‘About This Site’ page) were stripped out when I attempted to change the sidebar, but they should be back in there now under the ‘Further Information’ section. I’ll make a post about this very shortly — and, incidentally, thank you for bookmarking and commenting!

Comment on The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan by Alan

Alan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:55:55 +0000

Just wanted to say hello! Came across your blog whilst looking for a CS Lewis quote, saw articles on John Buchan and bibliophilia in general, so immediately bookmarked your RSS feed. Do you reveal somewhere on the blog who you are, or have I just been too dim to find that bit of information?
Thanks!

Comment on English-Only Europe? Challenging Language Policy by Robert Phillipson by eiael

eiael — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:30:40 +0000

We need to distinguish between anglophobes (relatively few despite British people being lazy linguists) and those resisting English for broader reasons. The American dollar and American culture are resisted by other Europeans because they threaten national autonomy and national (and local) culture. Other English users, non-native speakers mainly - both inside and outside Europe, tend to use the American version of English as that lingua franca. One, small but significant, way of diluting this and thus assisting cultural diversity would be a wide agreement by European users of English to adopt British English spelling and other usage.