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Move slowly and break one fewer thing
The typewriter may have been the most paradoxical invention in history.
Jul 13
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The social role of language errors
People can be roughly divided into two types: those who wince at a misplaced apostrophe (check out my post here) or a dangling participle, and those who…
Jul 11
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We are all mythophiloi
While Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is hitting the water next week, a different Christopher has put another vessel in the wake of Odysseus’ crisscrossing…
Jul 6
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The long experiment
The making of medieval Europe was caught between continuity and collapse
Jul 3
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June 2026
Apostrophilia
I have another confession to make here.
Jun 29
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How Rome built community
“Building community” is one of the great buzzwords of our age, spoken in boardrooms, on leadership retreats, across Linkedin feeds.
Jun 27
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Get up and leave
The first thing homo erectus did when he got properly up on his two legs was to leave.
Jun 22
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The least sexy on the list
The infrastructure of knowledge doesn't get the credit it deserves
Jun 19
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Clovis in a vacuum
Julius Caesar had the strange habit of watching himself think.
Jun 15
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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The brazen lie is the most enduring
I have a confession to make.
Jun 9
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Dr Cristian Ispir
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Between the road and the room
Homer’s Odyssey endures because the poet resists making easy choices
Jun 5
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Cicero and AI
The five canons of rhetoric are beyond the grasp of genAI
Jun 1
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