PinnedThe genius of the Socratic methodOr: how to get people to change their minds, without hating youAug 4, 2023A response icon5Aug 4, 2023A response icon5
PinnedRereading the enlightenment, after (or against) the culture warsExtract from Matthew Sharpe, The Other Enlightenment (Rowman & Littlefield, to appear Dec. 2022)Oct 10, 2022A response icon1Oct 10, 2022A response icon1
PinnedHow to Read Seneca TodayIlsetraut Hadot’s “Preface” and “Introduction” to Sénèque. Direction spirituelle et pratique de la philosophieJun 13, 2022A response icon2Jun 13, 2022A response icon2
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PinnedStoicism 1, 2, 3, 4: A Memory Aid for MeditationStoic meditation is about memorizing Stoic teachings deeply, which you can call upon facing adversities. As Marcus Aurelius says:Mar 1, 2022A response icon2Mar 1, 2022A response icon2
Nobel Peace Prize Favorite Drumpf Pushes to Resume Nuclear Testing: “It’s gonna be big, and you are…Nobel Peace Prize Favorite Donald Drumpf has this week staked his case by calling to resume live US nuclear bomb testing.Oct 30A response icon1Oct 30A response icon1
Rhetorical school takes out suit against Trump administration for White House destruction— “too…X- Rhetorica ad Newseum, your one stop shop for all your rhetoric newsOct 22Oct 22
Academic Freedom: Internal and External ThreatsIn a series of lectures conductednear the end of his life, Michel Foucault examined the emergence and evolution of the Greek term…Oct 22Oct 22
False equivalence and the militarisation of languageHow authoritarians distort public debate to corrode democracyOct 16A response icon1Oct 16A response icon1
14 points on the Far Right ascendancy by 2025 in the US and elsewherei. As recently as 2010, the Far Right was considered an historical relic. Its ideology was widely dismissed as barbarous, and of no…Aug 17Aug 17
