Oddballs of English Philosophy: Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English by Jonathan Rée

Despite the disarming glee of this intellectual romp, [Jonathan] Rée doesn’t quite banish the thought that, for the English, philosophy is what history was to Henry Ford, bunk — a notion clinched by T.S. Eliot’s portrait of Bertrand Russell as Mr Apollinax, wittering incomprehensibly and laughing like an irresponsible foetus at his own wit.

Review: Witcraft by Jonathan Rée and The History of Philosophy by A.C. Grayling

Whereas Rée shows how religion and political radicalism can strike up fruitful alliances, the briskly rationalist Grayling refuses the title of philosophy to any view of the world that involves religious faith...The difference between them is clear from their writing. Rée is enter­taining and stylish, Grayling is lucid but lifeless.