David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.

Sight Unseen

Friday, October 25, 2019


On Something Childish

Friday, October 11, 2019


So What’s New?

Friday, September 27, 2019


Why Should We Bother?

Friday, September 13, 2019


On Hype

Friday, August 30, 2019


Environmental Catastrophe

Friday, August 16, 2019


Rochester Cathedral

Friday, August 2, 2019


Paths of Glory

Friday, July 19, 2019


Go Placidly

Friday, July 5, 2019


Christian Woke

Friday, June 21, 2019


Something Old, Something New

Friday, June 7, 2019


Don’t Panic

Friday, May 24, 2019


Not to Be Alarmed

Friday, May 10, 2019


On Censorship

Friday, April 26, 2019


Can Beauty Save the World?

Friday, April 12, 2019


Collusion

Friday, March 29, 2019


Ides of the March hare

Friday, March 15, 2019


The First Commandment

Friday, March 1, 2019


On Belief Without Faith

Friday, February 15, 2019


Catholic Privilege

Friday, February 1, 2019


A Brief to Princes

Saturday, January 19, 2019


Of Cesspits & Sewers

Friday, January 4, 2019


Science in the Unmaking

Friday, December 21, 2018


Outrage

Friday, December 7, 2018


Of Consumerism

Friday, November 23, 2018


On Hate & Racism

Friday, November 9, 2018


Against Impersonality

Friday, October 26, 2018


Meanwhile, Some Other Catholic Things

Saturday, October 13, 2018


Of Strong & Purposeful Lovers

Friday, September 28, 2018


Two On the Crisis

Friday, September 14, 2018


Something More Than a “Crisis”

Friday, August 31, 2018


Too Big to Succeed

Friday, August 17, 2018


On Capital Punishment

Friday, August 3, 2018


Prometheus Unbound

Friday, July 20, 2018


Summer Reading

Friday, July 6, 2018


The Sense of Place

Friday, June 22, 2018


Sweetness Needs Light

Friday, June 8, 2018


In a Rearview Mirror

Friday, May 25, 2018


De Senectute

Friday, May 11, 2018


Alfie Versus the State

Friday, April 27, 2018


Dinosaurs on the Move

Friday, April 13, 2018


God Is Dead

Friday, March 30, 2018


The Mass & Nothing But

Friday, March 16, 2018


Standing in the Cloud

Friday, March 2, 2018


Fridays in Lent

Friday, February 16, 2018


On Grace, at Candlemas

Friday, February 2, 2018


The Dimensionality of Things

Saturday, January 20, 2018


The Stupid Animal

Friday, January 5, 2018


On the ‘Infancy Narratives’

Friday, December 22, 2017


Provocations

Friday, December 8, 2017