Rowan Williams

Nov 12, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Guy Shrubsole |Rowan Williams

We live in a democracy, but how much say does the public have over how its land is used? In England today, less than one per cent of the population owns half the land, and they exert huge sway over how the countryside is governed. Just 150 huge estates, for example, own England’s upland peat bogs – our single most important natural carbon store. You’d hope that these landowners, a mix of aristocrats and City bankers, would strive to be good stewards of this vitally important national asset.

Nov 12, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Sonia Sodha |Rowan Williams

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are introduced to is Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction between “freedom to” and “freedom from”: an illustration of the fact that giving more rights to one individual can result in taking away another person’s freedoms, thereby detracting from the sum total of liberty in the world.

Sep 13, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Rowan Williams |Diarmaid MacCulloch

God made humanity ‘for a while a little lower than the angels’: A miniature from Le livre de Lancelot du Lac (c.

Dec 26, 2023 | newstatesman.com | Rebecca Solnit |Michael Prodger |Rowan Williams |Quinn Slobodian

George Orwell in an age of moralistsBy Rebecca SolnitIn a year when a clutch of new books revisited the life and work of George Orwell, the writer and activist – and author of Orwell’s Roses – Rebecca Solnit asked: should we stop measuring this great literary figure by today’s standards?

Jun 26, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Rowan Williams |Esau McCaulley