“Likewise the more right-coded version of this where we persuade everyone to read Great Books and write in the classical style. We'll just get more of that awful genre where it turns out misreading the Melian dialogue is key to understanding literally every event in international relations ever.”
Since life is keeping me busy I don't have time to do much writing and what not now, so just to keep my blog active I fired off a quick post about the latest report on the humanities.
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Haha, for once I am ahead of the trend
On Matthew Arnold and John Bright on True Glory and True Liberalism, and somewhat surprisingly Xenophon's Socrates.
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On Matthew Arnold and John Bright on True Glory and True Liberalism, and somewhat surprisingly Xenophon's Socrates.
open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
One thing I find fascinating is that the two high profile recent reports (yale and vanderbilt/washu) on the state of trust in elite universities don't rely on nor seem to have comissioned the very best available social science methods.
The thing I dislike about our age, is that I increasingly wonder, when I see pro-AI takes by other intellectuals, if there isn't funding or some interest behind it. (And in saying that I am willing to stipulate that some Anti Ai takes may be protection of turf.)
