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My review of Knife appeared in the Freethinker a couple of weeks ago; here are the opening paragraphs. ‘What you have made will long endure.’ This is how Salman Rushdie signed off one of his last emails to his friend Martin Amis. Amis was dying from oesophageal cancer (the same cancer that killed his and Rushdie’s old comrade Christopher Hitchens) and Rushdie was still recovering from the savage a...

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First reading and more thoughts on Napoleon here . Daniel's Den is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thank you for reading Daniel's Den. This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessharp.substack.com/subscribe

Race Hochdorf’s piece on Napoleon. Below, a photo of my copy of Frank McLynn’s Napoleon biography , the painting on whose cover has long enthralled me. It is, apparently, of Napoleon at Borodino. Also below, my hardback of Napoleon the Great . While I’m at it, Philip Dwyer’s Napoleon trilogy is also well worth reading. Both McLynn and Dwyer are much more negative than Roberts, and wrongly so as fa...

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A stray thought: Star Maker was published in the same year as The Hobbit . Stapledon and Tolkien, it seems, were looking in very different directions for enlightenment. Perhaps there is an essay to be made out of such a comparison. Thank you for reading Daniel's Den. This post is public so feel free to share it. Daniel's Den is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my wo...

Following up on our recent exchange of letters about the monarchy, my friend Jamie C. Weir and I had a little chat to hash out our disagreements. Jamie mentioned that perhaps we should have set out our ideological stalls prior to the chat, so I’ll just say here that Jamie is the Burke to my Paine—I think that conveys the essential difference in our outlooks! Jamie is an evolutionary biologist by p...

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Allow me to be self-indulgent and share an old Areo Magazine piece of mine. It’s a review of a book in defence of the Western canon in which I refer to Ellison’s universalism as espoused in his preface to Invisible Man . See here . Thank you for reading Daniel's Den. This post is public so feel free to share it. Daniel's Den is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my wo...

As I mention in the reading, I’ll be away for a few weeks on holiday. I’ll be back on October 2. And as promised, some old favourites. Thank you for reading Daniel's Den. This post is public so feel free to share it. Daniel's Den is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessh...

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A very long but very fun conversation. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Subscribe to Ozkii’s Substack below. His YouTube channel can be found here . Thank you for reading Daniel's Den. This post is public so feel free to share it. Daniel's Den is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Daniel's D...

See here for Nathan Alexander’s article on the agnostic/atheist divide being rooted more in Victorian respectability politics than in any substantial philosophical differences. I think this is relevant to the account read above wherein Darwin agrees with atheism but prefers to call himself an agnostic. Thank you for reading Daniel's Den. This post is public so feel free to share it. Daniel's Den i...

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See my Areo Magazine review of Inside Story here . Daniel's Den is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thank you for reading Daniel's Den. This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessharp.substack.com/subscribe

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