Articles discussing ideas drawn from professional, academic, and cultural knowledge domains.
Kwame Anthony Appiah’s New York Review of Books essay on Claude Lévi-Strauss confirm my old antipathies to his work, but also reveal some new façets to me.
Some humour from 2013, when I tangled with Google Plus zealots about the failed attempt to compete with Facebook.
Managing fear and resistance to change requires insight and tact .
Demands for simple language and dumbed-down concepts must not become anti-intellectualism and ignorance of the Western canon.
Liberal democracy is not anything anyone wants it to mean. It has long and profound traditions.
If we confuse simplified models and metaphors for reality in political and economic policy, we can create disaster for real people.
The serif is a constant companion, a known quantity, a faithful servant of the words.
How we can and do validate knowledge seems highly relevant in the era of fake news, social media disinformation, and political hyper-partisanship.
Nietzsche’s ideas have become powerfully pervasive in our culture, mostly without explicit acknowledgement.
There are some analytical tools anyone can use to debunk the disinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theories of our era.
Business process management (BPM) is still rooted in its original industrial engineering and manufacturing paradigms.
What I might never have imagined about a luminous realm of values if a translation hadn’t led me there.
Existentialism offers a valuable tool for critical analysis well-suited to engage with liberal ideals of egalitarianism and individual liberty.
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