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It’s been said repeatedly. In an era littered with professorial cancellations, campus disinvitations and institutional censorship, the truth is now objective and undeniable. Read on Substack The lot of a modern-day professor is either an unhappy one, or a delusional...
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THIS MONTH’S ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN launched by car-maker Jaguar Land Rover is among the most socially inept of modern times. Nonetheless, the 30-second advert still succeeds in exhorting us to ‘copy nothing,’ something that is a longstanding principle of innovation and...
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HALLOWEEN IS A TIME of ghouls and goblins; and, at the University of Toronto, it’s a perfect opportunity for academics to cavort in dress-up as cadavers across the campus. My own thoughts tend towards Michael Jackson’s era-defining 1983 hit video, Thriller. Read on...
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MOTIVATION is a fascinating concept. Lately, I’ve spent quite a bit of time contemplating what exactly it is that drives people—myself in particular—and spurs us to rise phoenix-like from the embers of past disappointments, able to face each new day kindled with...
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THE FRETTED CEILINGS and solemn masonry, the broad pillared walkways, the charming, dishevelled rosebushes, the abundant signposts directing students to this or that department across the West’s ancient universities, this is the stage for some of the most comic...
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MY LESBIAN FRIENDS are amongst the most sober, intelligent commentators when it comes to the state of today’s same-sex-attracted community. Once the preserve of those infrequent, supposedly perfidious souls that were historically ostracised by society for their...
