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Apt and fitted
There are some things that shouldn’t be said in certain places. ‘Who do you have to kill to get a drink around here’ might not be the best thing to say…
May 17
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Pictures and jigsaw puzzles
Reality is messier than our neat categorisations
May 15
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Vowels and consonants by design
All alphabets are artificial, but some are more artificial than others.
May 13
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Worse than lying
When culture becomes an expression of our self-deception
May 10
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Locked in adversarial tension
There is more than one way academic competition can play out
May 8
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“Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it”
Historical illiteracy has more than one detrimental effect.
May 6
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Indirect communication
When Homer, Plato and Kierkegaard opt for a communication and storytelling strategy for maximum transformative impact.
May 3
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Networks of knowledge
From the ancient wisdom pathways to Web 3.0, the quest for knowledge may have moved too fast and broken some things.
May 1
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April 2024
The beard and the philosopher
The ancients may have been better equipped to see through illusion.
Apr 29
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Dante and the being mode
When Erich Fromm meets Dante's Divine Comedy
Apr 26
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The virtues of the historical mind
In my previous life as an academic historian, I used to ask my undergraduate students why they chose history. Nearly always the answer was 'because I'm…
Apr 24
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Both modern and antimodern
More than any other culture in the world, the Western tradition has been one focused on propositional clarity, certainty, fixity and on internal…
Apr 22
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