New Book: Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Commentators: Mori Reithmayr and Kushti Westwood
Miltonic Monsters among the British Moralists: The Imagination of AI from Hobbes to Shelley
New Book - Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Women in Politics - In conversation with Faye Curtis: Women in ground close combat roles, and work experience at NATO
Tracing Dirty Russian Money and Getting the World to React + 'Follow the Money' Workshop
We are delighted to invite you to our secondevent of Michaelmas 2022, which will take place on Tuesday, October 18, in the Old Library at All Souls College at 8:30pm. As always, there will be a wine reception prior to the event, starting at 8pm. The speaker will be Šarūnas Černiauskas, who will be speaking to us on ‘Tracing Dirty Russian Money and Getting the World to React’. Please read to the end of the abstract for information on our 'Follow the Money' Workshop.
Webinar - Dickens on How Not to Do It: Bureaucracy, Busyness, and the Cultural Afterlife of the Circumlocution Office
In the preface to the first edition of Little Dorrit, Dickens proclaims that his novelistic exposition of the ‘whole Science of Government’ was based on the ‘common experience of an Englishman.’ Dickens in other words meant to give the laity’s perspective on public administration. However, ideas about officialdom tend to be shaped not only by experience, but also by stories.
Nigel Biggar on Deconstructing Decolonisation, and In Conversation with Kemi Badenoch and Ali Ansari
*Professor Nigel Biggar*, CBE, is Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology and Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at the University of Oxford. Described as “one of the leading living Western ethicists” (John Gray, New Statesman, 25 November 2020), he is the author of In Defence of War (Oxford, 2013) and What’s Wrong with Rights? (Oxford, 2020). William Collins will publish his next book, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, in February 2023.
Peter Hitchens on After Conservatism, and In Conversation with Daniel Hannan and Noel Malcolm
*Peter Hitchens* is one of Britain's most accomplished journalists, debaters and conservative thinkers. He currently writes for The Mail on Sunday, contributes regularly to most major British newspapers, is a former foreign correspondent for the Daily Express, and has won the Orwell Prize for his political journalism. He is the author of numerous books, including The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill To Theresa May (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion (I.B. Tauris, 2018).
Andrew Roberts on History and Statesmanship, and In Conversation with Robert Tombs
*Professor Andrew Roberts* is one of Britain's most distinguished historians, journalists and broadcasters. He is the author of nineteen books, the most recent of which are his world-renowned biographies of Winston Churchill, Churchill: Walking With Destiny (Allen Lane, 2018) and King George III, George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch (Allen Lane, 2021).