from Haaretz an interesting and revealing discussion on "To what extent should Orthodox Judaism shape the state of Israel?"
Looking at the Radical Philosophy website, I noticed the following: Lecercle on Badiou, plus something by Peter Hallward on singularity and on Critchley/ Badiou.
Meanwhile, seems that Schopenhauer wrote an appendix to my notes on rhetoric (see below).
Stephan Collini on Christopher Hitchens, concludes in near Proustian syntax with:
But after reading this and some of his other recent writings, I begin to imagine that, encountering him, still glowing and red-faced from the pleasures of the chase, in the tap-room of the local inn afterwards, one might begin to see a resemblance not to Trotsky and other members of the European revolutionary intelligentsia whom he once admired, nor to the sophisticated columnists and political commentators of the East Coast among whom he now practises his trade, but to other red-coated, red-faced riders increasingly comfortable in their prejudices and their Englishness - to Kingsley Amis, pop-eyed, spluttering and splenetic; to Philip Larkin, farcing away at the expense of all bien pensants; to Robert Conquest and a hundred other 'I told you so's. They would be good company, up to a point, but their brand of saloon-bar finality is only a quick sharpener away from philistinism, and I would be sorry to think of one of the essayists I have most enjoyed reading in recent decades turning into a no-two-ways-about-it-let's-face-it bore. I just hope he doesn't go on one hunt too many and find himself, as twilight gathers and the fields fall silent, lying face down in his own bullshit.