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The low-bar emperor
It might sound weird, but try to picture the Roman Empire as a company with one of the worst succession policy in history.
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September 2026
The pebble in your shoe
There’s more madness to the Socratic method.
Sep 29
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Lesser known ruses
Ask your friends to name history’s greatest deception and you’re likely to get the same answer every time: the Trojan Horse.
Sep 26
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Thinking about the non-event
Counterfactuals and the challenge of thinking in systems
Sep 22
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The author owns the book, but who owns the author?
Ancient slaves who made it big
Sep 19
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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“We’ll get back to you without delay”
On the modern art of bullshitting
Sep 15
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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What’s your ROTI?
What’s another acronym to an already growing list?
Sep 12
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Sic semper the tyranny of etymology
How to ruin a perfectly good word
Sep 8
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Scepticism deepening with time depth
What kind of evidence would you need?
Sep 4
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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August 2026
World languages in 10 stats
Welcome to another week of Biblonia.
Aug 31
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Cured in its own cultural juice
What do Gothic arches and steak tartare have in common?
Aug 28
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Ancient philosophy was boutique
It’s often forgotten how richly profuse in ideas and intellectual schools the last third of the first Mediterranean millenium BC was.
Aug 24
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