It’s great, just don’t ask me what it means
I must have been barely a teenager or younger when I first saw The Birthday Party, but not being able to make head nor tail of it didn’t seem to be a problem…
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Stop conflating education with employability
Education is now routinely advocated and defended on the basis of its ability to prepare people for the world of work. Art teaches creativity, philosophy critical thinking, history empathy, sport dedication, and all these things are good because they are transferable skills that can be monetised.
ReadWe are Dubai
I’ve just come back from a working weekend in Dubai. I arrived finding it weird and alien. I left realising that I’ve been living in Dubai most of my life and if you’re reading this, you probably have too.
ReadThe unsurprising vices of philosophers
The assumption that philosophy involves the careful study of ethics and that would tend to make people more ethical is questionable for several reasons.
ReadFree your mind
Review of Elastic by Leonard Mlodinow in the FT.
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