Sublime

Friedrich Nietzsche declared in The Birth of Tragedy that ‘art owes its continuous evolution to the Apollonian–Dionysian duality’, he was implicitly declaring his belief that the tensions between form and content, head and heart, discipline and desire were the building blocks of dramatic structure.

who gets to decide what constitutes ‘hate speech’ in the first place?

Ostensibly the characters are working-class people, but their habits, the interiors of their houses, their clothes, their outlook and, above all, their speech are entirely middle class. They are all living at several pounds a week above their income.

thesis meets antithesis and they fight it out, only for the antithesis to be refuted.

intrusive, potent cultural values of contemporary America have skewed Christianity’s classical beliefs and deconstructed the Church’s wisest and proven faith-forming practices.

No writer can determine what may appeal to his imagination and it is simply philistine to arraign him for the things he happens to write about best.

hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.