Howling At The Moon:
Reflections From An Incorrigible Optimist

Ennobling Ideas
October 7, 2024
How the Nobel Prizes could be significantly improved

On Intelligence
September 30, 2024
The stupidity of AI fear-mongering

A Revealing Data Point
September 23, 2024
The modern cult of “thought leadership” as hard evidence of a society in intellectual decline

The Key to Progress
September 16, 2024
How the actual “scientific method” has nothing to do with science at all

A Question of Ownership
September 9, 2024
What the divergent attitudes towards open access reveal about many in the museum world

Barbarians at the Gates
September 2, 2024
How the Internet Archive is putting publishers to shame

Renaissance Tales
August 29, 2024
How the Italian Renaissance mysteriously unleashes our inner fabricator

The False Divide
August 26, 2024
The successful artist as problem-solver

On Prophecy
August 22, 2024
What a thoughtful scientist saw in our troubled future

Spinning Towards Disaster
August 19, 2024
Lamenting the death of the non-political

Towards a Broader Victory
August 15, 2024
How a single-minded fixation on competition makes us all lose

The Wandering Hat
August 12, 2024
Exploring the captivatingly convoluted history of the Phrygian Cap

Room For Improvement
August 8, 2024
Reimagining the definition of the modern Olympian

Marchons, Marchand
August 5, 2024
The intriguingly murky history behind the French national anthem

Alive and Kicking
August 1, 2024
A profile of one of the last American public intellectuals

Self-sabotage
July 29, 2024
How the French shot themselves in the Olympic foot

A Lesson for the World
July 25, 2024
How the Paris Olympic Games are about much more than sports.

Higher, Faster, Better?
July 22, 2024
A timely assessment of the Olympian efforts of Pierre de Coubertin.

The Power of Prepositions
July 19, 2024
An examination of Johan Huizinga’s lost battle with an obdurate English translator.

Against Dr Federer
July 16, 2024
Why honorary doctorate degrees conflict with academic values and publicly muddy the true role of a university.

Hollywood Chess,
July 12, 2024
Circular reasoning behind Hollywood’s use of chess as a tool to convey surprise, intelligence and tortured genius. 

Unenlightenment
July 8, 2024
Reflections on the lack of critical thinking during the 2024 French legislative elections.

Societal Amnesia
July 3, 2024
Fear-mongering in French politics and missed opportunities to learn from the pandemic.

Constrained by Expectations
June 30, 2024
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