George Watson

George Watson is a Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. He is the editor of the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature and the author of The Lost Literature of Socialism and Take Back the Past.

An Unquenchable Gaiety of Mind

On visits to Cambridge University late in life, Jorge Luis Borges offered revealing last thoughts about his reading and writing

By George Watson | Thursday May 31, 2012

The Forgotten Churchill

The man who stared down Hitler also helped create the modern welfare state

By George Watson | Friday June 3, 2011

The High Road to Narnia

C. S. Lewis and his friend J. R. R. Tolkien believed that truths are universal and that stories reveal them

By George Watson | Monday December 1, 2008

Socrates' Mistake

The philosopher’s view of knowledge—forever demanding explanations, justifications, definitions, and criteria—is fantasy, and a dangerous fantasy

By George Watson | Tuesday March 1, 2005

An Unquenchable Gaiety of Mind

By George Watson | Thursday May 31, 2012

The Forgotten Churchill

By George Watson | Friday June 3, 2011

The High Road to Narnia

By George Watson | Monday December 1, 2008

Socrates' Mistake

By George Watson | Tuesday March 1, 2005

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