Weekend reading

"This Is How We Lost to the White Man": The audacity of Bill Cosby’s black conservatism by Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic.

After Mamet: David Edgar, "the stopped clock of English theatre", denouncing the Left's defectors in the Guardian.

Anthony Campbell on the evolution of consciousness in Julian Jaynes Revisited.

Erasmus: The Praise of Folly - an extract - still a rollicking good read after five hundred years.