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Getting dumber: the reverse Flynn effect and the politics of denial
For decades, humanity appeared to be getting smarter. Then, inconveniently, it wasn’t. IQs are now sliding backwards, and instead of asking why, we’ve…
 • Steven Schwartz
We pretend to teach, and students pretend to learn
In our brave new AI world, academics pretend to teach, students pretend to learn and administrators pretend it all adds up to something called higher…
 • Steven Schwartz
The bullshit detector’s survival guide
In a world of waffle and weasel words, plain speaking is a small act of rebellion. Here are seven ways to recognise bullshit, challenge it, and, if…
 • Steven Schwartz
Degrees of difficulty
Universities are struggling. Staff see livelihoods at risk, students see disruption, and managers see balance sheets collapsing. Everyone is right …
 • Steven Schwartz
Beyond diagnosis: building a mental health system that works
A landmark disability scheme was built on compassion, but captured by a “cash for diagnosis” culture. This is not just a budget problem. It is a human…
 • Steven Schwartz
The world is turning classical
The world is turning classical. Not everywhere. Not all at once. But unmistakably - and just in time.
 • Steven Schwartz
Our daily bread (and other dangerous substances)
Your dinner doesn’t need an app or a PhD, just something to eat, something to drink, and a little gratitude. This is a story about science, food, and…
 • Steven Schwartz
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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