“Argument,” Maurice Cowling wrote in 1981 to the editors of the London Review of Books, “is not what it seems to me suitable to do with opinions. What one does with opinions—all one needs to do with ...

We noted the passing of Maurice Cowling here. Today, on the SAU weblog, Michael Bentley, a Professor of History at the University of St. Andrews, remembers his friend: Was “the scourge of liberalism” ...

There is a lack of generosity in Maurice Cowling’s “Raymond Williams in Retrospect” (January 1990). It cannot be that everything that Williams wrote is bad and dangerous. Mr. Cowling seems still to be ...