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Jamie Q Roberts

Jamie Q Roberts

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Guide to the classics: bemused by the contemporary world? The Red and the Black might be just the friend you need

In The Red and the Black, Stendhal skewers the hypocrisies of post-revolutionary France.

21.10.2026 20

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Jamie Q. Roberts

Truth, evidence and controversy: Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion at 20

The enduring value of The God Delusion lies in its championing of reasoning and evidence, free speech and thinking for oneself.

07.10.2026 100

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Jamie Q Roberts

How does ‘common knowledge’ shape our individual lives and our societies? Steven Pinker has some ideas

We believe things because doing so helps us belong and upholds a certain moral order, but not necessarily because they are true.

12.10.2025 40

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Jamie Q Roberts

Guide to the classics: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim sees humanity’s darkness

Conrad suggests our sense of being good derives from our belonging – yet that to which we belong is not necessarily good.

21.08.2025 20

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Jamie Q Roberts

‘The true shadow of calamity’: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim sees humanity’s darkness

Conrad suggests our sense of being good derives from our belonging – yet that to which we belong is not necessarily good.

21.08.2025 20

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Jamie Q Roberts