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Dedalus and Icarus
Hubris and nationality in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Peter McLaughlin
We can't explain Taylor Swift
And that's a problem
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Peter McLaughlin
On being young under a health monopoly
Via Hilary Cass
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Peter McLaughlin
What's in a nonce's name?
On 'Della's law', and being a liberal who is against this sort of thing
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Peter McLaughlin
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March 2024

'Classical liberalism' and the Irish question
Or: Peter writes for the first time, but not the last, about his hatred for A. V. Dicey
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Peter McLaughlin
The duality of tangent and cotangent spaces
Some intuitive help
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Peter McLaughlin
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The Mortall God of the second American revolution
Hobbes and the GOP on parallel paths
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Peter McLaughlin
Frank Sobotka is an empty man
Epistemic status: openly eisegetical. The author’s prejudices are perhaps on display more than is advisable. Spoilers for season 2 of The Wire. It’s…
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Peter McLaughlin

February 2024

Nationalism as a tragedy in Yeats
‘Easter, 1916’—among its many additions to Irish folk memory—wound a tragic thread into the mostly-defiant nationalist twine of the wearing of the green…
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Peter McLaughlin
A defence of the recollection theory of knowledge
Plato's Socrates knew what was up
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Peter McLaughlin
Class politics in On Liberty
Quick note before the post itself: I wrote a piece for The Fitzwilliam about priorities for organ donation policy, and in particular the shortcomings of…
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Peter McLaughlin
Chesterton's fence and Rousseau's
Liberalism, conservatism, and rationalism on institutions and tradition
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Peter McLaughlin
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