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Knowledge without wisdom
I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory…
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Déjà Voodoo Economics
When a politician promises you something for nothing, check your wallet—because chances are, you’re the one who’s going to pay.
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The Busselton Mariner (With Apologies to S. T. Coleridge)
A chance encounter with a wizened seaman on a street in Busselton, Western Australia, turned an average day into an epiphany for the pearl divers of old…
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A 21st-century enlightenment
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Memento mori
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Cancelling the F-Word: No More Failure
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Western civilisation and its discontents
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Hearts and ashes
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Context is everything
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In the Shadow of the Past
In a world increasingly obsessed with the new and the now, it is crucial to remember that our present is built on the foundations of the past.
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The thinking vegetable
Potatoes, machines, and human consciousness: redefining intelligence and the essence of humanity in the era of artificial intelligence.
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Microcosmographia Academica 2.0: A Guide for the Ambitious Academic
Master the art of superficial profundity and prosper in the knowledge that, in the end, it's better to be superficially profound than profoundly…
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What would Washington do?
I am reposting this article in light of the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. It is time for Biden to be noble for the sake of his…
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Hearts and ashes
When our days begin to wane, and we come to sum up our existence, love is the legacy we leave, the light we carry forward, and the ultimate measure of…
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Nurturing Unity Amidst Controversy
"National Days" are opportunities for constructive dialogue rather than divisive posturing. To quote Martin Luther King, “We may have all come on…
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What would Keynes think?
It would be fair to say that Keynes, who saw money as a means to a more fulfilling life, would find our current era disconcerting, a culture of means…
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Wiser Every Day
Wiser Every Day
Restoring the traditional virtues--honesty, courage, tolerance, loyalty, honour and patriotism--to education, medicine, and politics.
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