In the past month, I found myself ricocheting between two conflicting visions of virtue.
On the one hand, Malcolm Guite’s astonishing and luminous poem Galahad and the Grail (2026), which takes us into the heart of the Arthurian quest for life at its fullest and purest. ["Arthurian" refers to anything connected to the legends of King Arthur.]
On the other, the peerless The Rest is History’s podcast series on the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.
Truth, shame & the search for blame
There was a stream of articles and commentary in the weeks leading up to Jason Arday’s resignation as Professor of …