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'Rhetoric' doesn't need to be such an ugly word – it has a lot to teach echo-chambered America
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year ago'Rhetoric' has a bad rap – but some of the original rhetoricians' techniques can actually help...
The demise of home working has triggered a new race for office space in London
Evening Standard via Yahoo Finance· 5 months ago“Man is the measure of all things”, so says the ancient Greek philosopher, Protagoras. But what...
Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer
The Guardian via Yahoo News· 3 months ago‘What happens when we clearly do something stupid?’ asks Sarah Paul, a professor of philosophy at...
How ‘apocalypse’ became a secular as well as religious idea
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 months agoClimate change is causing extreme weather, prolonged droughts and more bushfires. Andrew...
Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith: Supreme Court rules for income streams over artistic freedom
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAndy Warhol in Milan, Italy, January 1987. Leonardo Cendamo/Hulton Archive via Getty ImagesThe...
Fear of new ideas is nothing new
Kitsap Sun via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMr. Driscoll’s recent letter about the conservatives’ anti-everything philosophy reminds me of Goethe’s epic poem “Faust”, in which Mephistopheles proclaims: “I am the spirit that constantly ...