Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

We are so much accustomed to the humanitarian outlook that we forget how little it counted in earlier ages of civilisation. Ask any decent person in England or…

Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been very little …

What on earth has given opera its prestige in western civilisation - a prestige that has outlasted so many different fashions and ways of thought? Why are peop…