No Entry
No entry Many years ago, I was working for a membership organisation, and we had agreed to bring out a speaker from the UK. He [...]
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02, 2026
The March of Folly
The March of Folly I often wonder where the place is to be found between being entertained, being made to think, and being constrained [...]
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02, 2026
A Theory of Everything
A Theory of Everything When I was at school, it all seemed so simple. The physical world, at the smallest level, was made up [...]
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02, 2026
Lost Connections
Lost Connection Every so often I read an article or a book that seems to capture the current moment and does so in a [...]
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01, 2026
Muesli and Other Grumbles
Muesli and other grumbles For years I made my own muesli. It was easy: to a base of rolled oats, wheat bran, and wheat [...]
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01, 2026
Resolved
Are you resolved? Here we are at the beginning of the year, the time when convention suggests we should begin again by wiping the [...]
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11, 2025
Descartes Bones
Descartes’ Bones There are many challenges in writing about other people, especially those whose ideas have become important to you, or more widely. The [...]
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10, 2025
Aigai
Aigai We were in the second half of our cruise, travelling down the eastern coast of Greece, when the ship stopped at Thessaloniki. As [...]
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10, 2025
Six Great Ideas
Six Great Ideas I wonder if anyone reads Mortimer Adler today. For a while he was an influential and also popular philosopher, often referred [...]
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10, 2025
Caravaggio
Caravaggio Why do we become especially focussed on some artists or, to be more precise, on some works of art? There is often no [...]
