Stephen Everson

Armchair Aristotelian. ‘There are distinctions to be made, and it’s important to make them well.’ (T. M. Scanlon)

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Michael Dummett’s despairing judgement on the degradation of academia and the need to avoid complicity in that is well worth revisiting.

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@drianpace @stone3Clare and two Ukrainian protestors had insisted on reading a statement for 10 minutes before letting the lecture continue. do you think you would be equally condemnatory of the protestors and the University?

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@drianpace @stone3Clare If it had been a public lecture by someone in International Relations arguing that Russia had legitimate security interests in preventing Ukraine from joining NATO and that its invasion had to be seen in that context…

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@quineofthenorth @UniofOxford I suspect if they’d done it to someone from IR who was arguing that Russia had legitimate security interests in preventing Ukraine from joining NATO, the condemnation would have been less intense.

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Really good to see @ZackPolanski getting ahead of this. We are, potentially, only a few months away from food prices and the food system becoming *the* dominant economic story in the UK as Hormuz closure and El Nino start to bite. How is UK government preparing?

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

.@DEHEdgerton and Karel Williams have written a blistering assessment of Andy Burnham's plans for the country, correctly identifying that (with some new glosses & emphases) it still goes round the same analysis and policies Labour's factions have all accepted for a decade... 1/2

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@meadwaj Let’s hope it’s not just cover for pouring public money into propping up AI companies that require CapEx that isn’t justified by their economic utility.

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@Fremond_ There’s always the Latin original.

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@dominbydigdug @Le_Master Very much in contrast to Jonathan Barnes, who is trenchant on this:

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@culdefoudre @MattRob78281471 @JamesWHankins1 Added to which Jonathan Barnes’ clear-eyed appraisal of the topic is—as ever—judicious.

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@intrinsickelly @scarycath And that his cultural frame-of-reference includes the Goldberg Variations, which immediately places him above most commentators on popular culture.

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@wartsandbrawls I think you’ll find much agreement on the view that it was a mistake for universities to establish business schools.

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@Aletheia_70 @61harpy That’s not quite right, is it? It’s not that the protestors tried to prevent the lectures and were thwarted in that attempt. They certainly interrupted each lecture but then the lecture carried on afterwards. If you’re going to condemn them, at least do so on the right grounds.

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@GreekWord @theo_nash It’s not to the taste of those who like their Englished Homer to have echoes of Tennyson.

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@ProfAliceS @UniofOxford This was a public lecture, not a lecture for teaching students.

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@ericesheng Do you know Heda Segvic’s very perceptive review of Crisp?

[Ricardo Karam ريكاردو كرم @RicardoRKaram]

Thursday morning, an Israeli airstrike struck the home of Mona Khalil in Mansouri, South of Lebanon. The home itself was modest. But what it sheltered was extraordinary.
For decades, while many spoke about protecting nature, Mona lived that commitment every single day. From her small house overlooking the sea, she became the guardian of a coastline, the protector of countless sea turtles, and a voice for creatures that could not speak for themselves.
She chose to stay. She stayed through uncertainty, through fear, through danger. She stayed because the beach she watched over was not just a stretch of sand. It was a sanctuary. A place of life. A place worth defending.
Mona was seriously injured and her assistant suffered burns. Both are thankfully in stable condition. Yet the tragedy goes far beyond their wounds.
With war reaching a woman whose life’s mission has been to protect life, something deeper is injured, a part of our humanity is wounded. Violence does not distinguish between a fighter and a conservationist, between a military position and a nest of endangered turtles, between those who destroy and those who dedicate their lives to preserving.
Mona Khalil spent years protecting one of Lebanon’s most fragile treasures. Today, it is Mona who needs protection. And perhaps the greatest tribute we can pay her is to ensure that her courage, her mission, and her love for this land survive long after the smoke has cleared ❤️🇱🇧

#lebanon #humanity #truth #worldenvironmentday2026

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@The_Discernible @pegobry_en Ever since Wilson’s translation was published, everyone has stopped reading Pope’s 1725 translation into heroic couplets.

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@Ptyrrell @SydSteyerhart I guess reading the Greek would also be an attack on Anglo culture?

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‘the original translations’

[Honest Abe @Honest_Abe_1864]

@SydSteyerhart We need a billionaire patriot to run a free Odyssey book promotion offering a free copy of one of the original translations to anyone that wants it, similar to the free Bible promotions you see on TV. This would wipe out sales for the woke version.