Bruce Charlton's Notions

* It seems that political correctness represents a 'turn' in Leftism. Leftism can be seen, for most of its history, as a reactio...

* Glenn Gould seemed to phrase trills more than any other pianist I have encountered. In the finale Gigue movement of Bach's French...

* From some recent comments on this blog, it seems as if there may be misunderstandings about my attitudes to various Christian denominati...

* From commenter Rottweiler at the blog Throne and Altar: http://bonald.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/mystical-christian-reactionaries-anoth...

* Man is nothing but a subject full of natural error that cannot be eradicated except through grace. Nothing shows him the truth, everythi...

* One of my favourite pieces of music is the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli , by Michael Tippett (1953) - indeed it is probabl...

* I have never presented a written-out and formal taxonomy of the Right so far - but reflecting on Bonald's more complex taxonomy whic...

* From Chance or the Dance? A critique of modern secularism  by Thomas Howard, 1969. * There were some ages in Western history that ha...

* Condensed from the Throne and Altar blog - A Taxonomy of the Right written by the pseudonymous Bonald. http://bonald.wordpress.com/20...

* From Piers Plowman - by William Langland (c 1332-c1400) -  Translated and edited by Donald and Rachel Attwater. This is considered by...

* As C.S Lewis often remarked - the one virtue that modern society has above all previous societies is kindness: our most hated vice is cr...

* Past societies never had any problem about the existence of purposive evil - intentional evil; this was seen among humans and rooted in ...

* Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So, who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are...

* Who were the authors of the Gospels; and when were they written? Was St John the Apostle also St John the Evangelist; and was he/ they...

* From Out of the Silent Planet , a science fiction novel by C.S. Lewis, 1938. Scene: Oyarsa is the ruling 'planetary intelligence...

* From the end of Blade Runner , 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU * From the end of The Last of the Mohicans , 1992...

* Isn't it remarkable that evil strikes us as ridiculous? That the concept of 'evil' seems dumb or insane or manipulative - t...

* FROM THE COMMENTS BY 'GFC': I believe the Left to be the child of Satan, and in this we see that the rotten apple doesn't f...

* From Donald Attwater's 1930 Introduction to his modern English translation of Piers Plowman - Everyman's Library edition, 1957 ...

* There is a sense in which political correctness in The West is (merely) the return of a normal situation for historical human society: a...

* I believe Law has become so dominant a model for conceptualizing morality, that now our culture cannot escape its domination. In part...