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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…
Aug 7
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Steven Schwartz
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July 2025
Favourites from the Wiser Every Day archive (in case you missed them)
Our most-read essays so far—still free to read and share.
Jul 18
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Steven Schwartz
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Favourites from the Wiser Every Day archive (in case you missed them)
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Between Patience and Fortitude
In an age of noise and urgency, the library is a quiet kind of miracle.
Jul 9
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Steven Schwartz
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Between Patience and Fortitude
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June 2025
Revival: Knowledge without wisdom
It's time we once again started hearing the word wisdom on campus. (Vice-Chancellor’s Lecture. Original version.)
Jun 23
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Steven Schwartz
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Revival: Knowledge without wisdom
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The Fraying of Reality
Is a fake summer reading list a harmless AI "hallucination" or a glimpse of something more troubling: a culture slowly surrendering to the smooth…
Jun 10
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Steven Schwartz
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The Fraying of Reality
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May 2025
The Age of Bullshit
In a world of “frameworks,” “stakeholders,” and “outcomes,” public language is losing its grip on meaning.
May 22
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Steven Schwartz
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The Age of Bullshit
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Step by step, moment by moment, breath by breath
If nothing really matters, then why does it matter that nothing matters?
May 13
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Steven Schwartz
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Step by step, moment by moment, breath by breath
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The Equity Illusion: Why Lowering Standards Doesn’t Help the Disadvantaged
Fairness is not about everyone getting the same outcome. It’s about everyone having a fair chance to reach their potential.
May 1
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Steven Schwartz
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The Equity Illusion: Why Lowering Standards Doesn’t Help the Disadvantaged
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April 2025
Anzac Day
We owe our ancestors a country that believes in itself.
Apr 25
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Steven Schwartz
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Anzac Day
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Campaign Speech by the Honourable Minister for Progress, Priorities and Posturing*
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. Goethe, Faust
Apr 8
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Steven Schwartz
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Campaign Speech by the Honourable Minister for Progress, Priorities and Posturing*
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Better Together
A pluralistic society requires citizens who can engage across differences, not just coexist in parallel worlds. If universities do not model this, who…
Apr 1
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Steven Schwartz
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Better Together
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March 2025
The death of trust
Trust in vaccines is collapsing, fuelled by political failures, corporate greed, and scientific conflicts of interest. If we don’t act now, preventable…
Mar 20
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Steven Schwartz
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The death of trust
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