David Coates

Catholic. Husband.

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My debut Substack: liberalism was once confident in its doctrine, but its modern adherents have undergone an equivalent intellectual decay to Brezhnev-era communists

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@peplumtop @EngelsbergIdeas Tolstoy is mentioned in the piece, though I didn’t manage to fit in this glorious quote:

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Nietzsche and Wittgenstein drew on him. Einstein kept his portrait on the wall. Proust, Wagner, and Mahler fell under his spell. Yet in his lifetime Schopenhauer was almost entirely unread.

My piece for @EngelsbergIdeas on a slow road to recognition: https://t.co/1GldOX9Qy0

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@LaocoonofTroy Thank you!

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@JonathanLingard I just might!

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His praise for the art of not reading is perfect for today's nightmare of meaningless rant and instant punditry

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Arthur Schopenhauer's contribution to western philosophy made little impression at first, but would later influence the likes of Tolstoy, Proust and Wagner.

Schopenhauer’s devoted disciples | @_jestingpilate_

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It’s wild to me that prison abolitionists don’t seem to anticipate that lynch mobs applying summary justice and hanging criminals from lamp-posts would be the immediate, day-1, consequence of their policy

[daniela @daniela__127]

Watch as Darializa Avila Chevalier, prison abolitionist, is asked *four times* how she would handle a murderer, and each time refuses to answer. https://t.co/NFXYotaFx0

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@jacques_davey @EdwardEGibbon @si_rubinstein What a great man - I owe him so much. He’s actually just published an academic article from me which I ought to post here.

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@jacques_davey @EdwardEGibbon @si_rubinstein Whatmore?

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@EdwardEGibbon @si_rubinstein @jacques_davey I also think the prose-problem is slightly compounded by the fact that he doesn’t have much new to say. Shooting Niagara is fine, but he’s said it all before (and better).

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@EdwardEGibbon @si_rubinstein @jacques_davey The French Revolution remains great, as does Chartism. Have never made more than a dent in Frederick.

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@si_rubinstein @EdwardEGibbon @jacques_davey With Carlyle the prose of each book is worse than the previous. His best writings were his essays, which are excellent, then Sartor Resartus, and so on.

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@CapelLofft RJQ Adams?

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This is unbelievably heartbreaking. The poor girl.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I challenge every single person who believes minors should be enabled and even encouraged to transition to read this first person testimony to the end.

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via @IWF https://t.co/3276o4tg8J

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@CptHastings1916 Moved here from Sussex 4 years ago: both are top-tier

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@CptHastings1916

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I spent a little too long looking bemusedly at this tweet and thinking “but we do grow hops”

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

incredibly funny stuff from a country obsessed with a beverage made from a plant that does not grow in their climate

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@CptHastings1916 @_TheGMan I once had someone incredulously reply “down?!” when I asked. It was just me & my wife in an almost empty pub during a weekday afternoon.

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Shaw turned down an invitation from Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Churchill) by saying that joining her for lunch would be contrary to his habits.

Jennie responded: “Know nothing of your habits. Hope they are better than your manners”

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George Bernard Shaw turns invitations down: