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Whom the gods would destroy, first they make mad.

[Zeitwende 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇦🇹 @JohnBirchall]

The world in which we "boomers" grew up, with all its glory, its fun and its problems, is nearly over. Time for another "The World of Yesterday" (title of Stefan Zweig's fascinating 500-page suicide note)?

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@benjcartlidge @amwilson_opera Most Humanities depts. are for the chop. Reasons are complex. Turchin's "elite over-production" is one. People with far more education than we can use who, upon serious reflection, conclude UK is run by insiders who hate & fear their own people. The powerful won't fund that risk!

[Zeitwende 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇦🇹 @JohnBirchall]

@EngelsbergIdeas @si_rubinstein Interesting. "...Horne Tooke’s system was simply an invitation to come up with fanciful connections between any words that sound similar..." One day I must ask you to explain Derrida to me! https://t.co/lrExZzz02X

[Zeitwende 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇦🇹 @JohnBirchall]

@podoksik @johnmilbank3 Noted, thank you. Any side in a conflict who uses propaganda to engineer alarm about their enemy is itself an enemy of truth and must forfeit support of the honest.

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@podoksik @johnmilbank3 "In May, Zelensky chose to honour Ukrainian partisans who fought alongside the Nazis in the Second World War and carried out massacres of tens of thousands of Poles and Jews..." Possibly you disagree, or commented without reading the Telegraph article.

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

Trying out @Meleteon (as recommended by @zenahitz).
A 4-week online course on the Odyssey, weekly from 20 July.
Minimum 12 participants, maximum 20.
Key passages in English (Fagles) will be read through and discussed each session.
Get ready for Nolan...
https://t.co/dunEktjSb7

[Zeitwende 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇦🇹 @JohnBirchall]

@DannyBate4 I read it. What happened to your Greek-speaking Philistines? Are today's Palestinian Arabs their descendents, or immigrants who displaced them? Are there place names or other traces of Greek in their language today?

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@CummingTim @ahistoryinart Ah, I enjoyed "Time by the Sea" last week. For all the name-dropping! An unexpected recommendation from a substacker I chat with who lives in Lahore.

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@robinsaikia @cguyver Are you snobbish about us suburbanites? It is not a nail-bar, it's a nail spa.

[Zeitwende 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇦🇹 @JohnBirchall]

@subhanusaxena @Athanasius_45 @sentantiq @AntigoneJournal @mcgillmd921 Well it is a book every credible student of Greek has to read, yet probably without adding much if you have read more recent books about Homer. However, it lets you to witness the birth of Altertumswissenschaft, for what it's worth, which is not without interest.

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@JamesMunro5 Austrians call it the Deutsches Eck (German Corner) because if you go from Tirol to Salzburg and further east you have to cut across Germany. Currently, and since 1955, without border controls... https://t.co/Ixigkedfdq

[Zeitwende 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇦🇹 @JohnBirchall]

@benjcartlidge Just drawing the personal dimension to your attention. I couldn't address the ethical question usefully, even given more space. I have some connection with the Effective Altruism movement, for which Oxford is a stronghold, though Parfit's "Reasons and Persons" seems rebarbative.

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@jonathanbfine There are no facts. Just good stories and bad. And yet historians who have not examined primary sources are the prototype of writers who use AI ("only for a grammar check" 🤥), regurgitating regurgitated delusions.

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@benjcartlidge Losing those benefits hurts more! From an austere "greatest good to greatest number" ethical stance, clearly you are right.

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@EduardHabsburg Better than Winnitou? "Last of the Mohicans" is next on my reading list when I finish Don Quixote (of which Part II is riot!)

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@PhiloCrocodile It is hard to see how you define the data set.

I have conversed a lot with non-native speakers and worked on documents for them. There is a large set of formal and informal lexicon which one usually avoids, but which I'd still use with native speakers, and not only fellow-Brits.

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@Francis_Hoar None of the pro-EU crowd is unaware that the EU has profound, almost catastrophic problems. And I suspect some of the cheerleaders for UK parliamentary sovereignty have a few reservations about the state of British democracy & hoped for improvements which Parl will never deliver.

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@gabridli I wanted to suggest Graham Greene, as his travel books seem respectful on race issues. The gangsters in the original Brighton Rock happened to be Jewish, later changed to Italians, so the jury is out on whether he was an anti-Semite and / or anti-Italian--many Brits were both!

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@amwilson_opera Slightly depends on the subject! What about a series of detective novels called "The Opera Murders" where a working-class Welsh opera fan, Violetta Jones, tries to work out who killed the leading lady, and it turns out to be someone on, or aspiring to join, ACE...

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@gabridli The list has many problems. If you narrow it down to big name English-born authors where no one can unearth a remark or characterisation in their life which some would construe as anti-Semitic, the list gets short. Iris Murdoch may get in, but was born in Dublin.