This will be an important book. I kept on noticing the James Marriott thesis working in politics. At the peak of mass deep literacy, roughly 1970s-1990s, we had large numbers of intellectuals as MPs with complex ideas genuinely driving politics. Utterly normal people were what

So why is it important to counter the influence of the ethos of vulnerability? A society that loses confidence in the capacity of humanity to assume a measure of influence over its destiny turns its people into a disoriented mass fearful of assuming responsibility for the future

Laurie Adkin “a culture steeped in petro-masculinity” lololol. That’s a new one. And jaw-droppingly sexist. Imagine if I described you as steeped in a culture of “cooking-and-cleaning femininity”. You’d roast me, quite correctly, for my gender essentialism. Good lord, it’s like you people

We're worried about Epstein and secret cabals of p*d* elites. But look at what our good bureaucrats tell our children every day. He was reflecting a much deeper illness at the heart of society. compactmag.com/article/jeffre…

Very good article.

Pablo Secada "Sandel’s philosophical rejection of #Rawls’ reasoning was that it requires an impossibly “unencumbered self”, so stripped of attachments to family, community, country, faith or vocation that it could not bear the substantive conclusions he built on it." From the article.

Related to this. Tom Nairn in an essay on Edward Said made this observation: "Self-consciously nationalist intellectuals are often susceptible to cosmopolitanism...they feel most at home on the neutral terrain of exile and alienation." lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v16/…

A part of me wants to say I don't recognise the country I grew up in. But this was inevitable. There were never any principles. Just that we were "nice" and "not those guys." It was inevitable that we'd fall for every damn thing as long as it was framed as "caring" and "free

What does Adam Smith have to do with macroeconomic development and income inequality in small post-socialist economies? Read more in ‘De-industrialization, primate city, and income inequality after socialism…’ proseontherocks.substack.com/p/de-industria…

For nearly twenty years, I've argued that life is becoming increasingly emptied of all meaning beyond the self, and in its place is substituted diffuse notions of "happiness," "wellbeing," etc. In other words, a sense of personal "wellbeing" becomes the main goal of life. But

For a thousand years, the Bible existed in England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✝️ But only in Latin. Ordinary people weren't allowed to read it. The Church said only the Church could speak to God. William Tyndale thought that was wrong. Oxford-educated. Spoke eight languages. He told a clergyman: I

"expensive sounds" 😃 youtube.com/shorts/mXdN8go…

Actually, Merz but he is right. The industrial revolution was also the "industrious revolution". Number of hours worked increased by about a third. If Europe wants to compete, it needs to work more. Socialism disappeared b/c people preferred not to work. In words of Bela Kun,

I totally agree that from the PoV of human welfare working less (15h per week as Keynes dreamed) is great. But, from the PoV of economic and political power, if Europeans work 35 hours a week and Chinese work 70 hours, Europe will lose. It is a no-brainer. One of the reasons

The choice is not peace or war but what will emerge after the conflict.… The world aflame is condition for a renewed Pax Americana.… Hamas was first to recognize that their only hope was Trump.… Can he talk them down from the ledge or will they jump? compactmag.com/article/trumps…

Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath just delivered the brutal truth parents and educators need to face: “Even in schools, it doesn’t matter what the size of the screen is… and it doesn’t matter who bought it… All of these things are going to hurt learning, which in turn are going to hurt

If you think there aren't education academics saying foundational math isn't important, think again. This professor of education at SFU was willing to go on the record in the Vancouver Sun. Quote below👇vancouversun.com/news/canada-st…

😲Wow. This ed prof even says that declining math scores could be a good thing. “The fact that our scores might be declining at some levels could even be a positive thing because we are diversifying our mathematics awareness and understanding.” vancouversun.com/news/canada-st…

I am so sick of the absolute stupidity surrounding the topic of AI and education. People need facts in their memory in order to think; without them, you can do nothing. These people would encourage a school system that actually enslaves kids' thinking to software. It's

"We're sending our kids to gyms that still have them lifting weights that a rocket could send to the moon." Yeah, no shit. But it's good to be fit, you utter imbecile.