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Courage in the Twenty-First Century

July 14, 2011 – 5:48 am

Blog by member Rich Folsom- Arete Event 15th February 2011
Courage in the 21st Century
 
Courage is eloquent.  It charms us with stories, and it dominates myths, legends and super heroes the world over.  But what is it, and does anything about today make courage different to yesterday?  This question – what is courage in the twenty-first century [...]

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Britain Through Others’ Eyes

July 13, 2011 – 2:04 pm

Blog by member Andrew J Scott- Arete Event 8th July 2011
How Britain Is Seen From The Outside, ‘init.
I had the pleasure of attending my first Arete Club dinner last Friday, where the topic under discussion was “How is Britain perceived by the rest of the world?” certainly to my mind a timely subject ripe for [...]

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Erotica as Art or Just a Sales Tool?

January 11, 2011 – 12:41 pm

Great article by one of our speakers, Rowan Pelling, commenting from the event in the Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/rowanpelling/8075006/Sex-is-all-very-well-but-wed-rather-hear-a-good-joke.html

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Feasts and Famines: how do we understand food?

January 11, 2011 – 10:13 am

Blog by member Fleur MacDonald – http://www.theomnivore.co.uk/
Worries about the production, supply and consumption of food are central to the modern age – intrinsically part of Western guilt over the legacy of colonialism, the consequences of global warming and the controversy that surrounds the distribution of Aid Relief and its impact. Though it may be [...]

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G3: Three-man World Summit

June 7, 2010 – 1:56 am

June 2010
Post by member – Aaron Weaver
Blue sky thinking and one’s ideals are always great notions, but invariably something extraordinarily difficult to achieve in practice. Nevertheless as Oscar Wilde states in The Soul of Man under Socialism, “a map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it [...]

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