We sat at a table in a restaurant. Two young people came in. They said nothing to one another, but took out their cellphones and spent the next twenty minutes in total silence, poring over emails and texts. They ordered their food and ate in silence. No sooner had they finished their meal than the …
“The great adventure of the last two centuries has been “Who am I?” What I would like to know is “Who are you?” (Theodore Zeldin, historian and philosopher). Theodore Zeldin, a don at Christ Church, Oxford and one of the world’s greatest experts on France, it’s culture and history, has latterly concerned himself with …
Yes, you read that correctly – 25,000 elephants. Africa has lost 600,000 in the last ten years. 34.7 tons of illegal ivory is seized every year, only about 10 per cent of the total trade. And guess why it is in such demand? Yes, you’ve guessed it! It’s for religious reasons. The devout praise their …
Seven Danish kindergartens are offering to provide two hours free child are each week so that parents can go home to make more babies, thus attempting to guarantee their income for the future. Epicurus believed in pleasure, and would thus have no problem with the”going home” part. But he would have been more dubious about …
We cannot produce leaders and innovators by sending people to business schools, whence they emerge with mind-boggling jargon and little else. An educated person is one with a knowledge of human nature, capable of rising above private interest and class, willing to work for the public good, capable of judging political arguments on their intrinsic …
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