In the 1990s it seemed de rigueur to ask the question “Which five people would you invite to your dream dinner party?” My answer then would leave me stuck talking with a bunch of 1990s navel-gazers now! Not only would I most certainly swap Morrissey for Ed Feser today, but he would also appear on my list of “Which five people would you bring into battle?”

Whilst Feser looks like he might be handy with a bayonet, I am, of course, talking about the battle of ideas. Edward Feser is an ideas man, and how! He is that rare beast, an intellectual whose eyes are more open, not less. I am usually with Peter Kreeft who says “some ideas are so absurd that you need a PhD to believe them”.