Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
the world’s most visible public intellectuals today more often revive or reassert old ideas, rather than generating new ones. The result is that old zombie orthodoxies survive far longer than they should.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Power politics
Mary Beard • SPQR
In the senate
Mary Beard • SPQR
a stunted social imagination undermines our ability to adapt.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
"Education at the edge of history can’t rely on the authority of educators brought up in a world that no longer exists..."
Michael Garfield • RETURN | Substack
CHAPTER SIX · NEW POLITICS Destruction
Mary Beard • SPQR
He has no fear of Wriothesley, or anyone like him. You can calculate the actions of unprincipled men. As long as you feed them they’ll run at your heels. Less calculable, more dangerous, are men like Stephen Vaughan, men who write to you, as Vaughan does: Thomas Cromwell, I would do anything for you. Men who say they understand you, whose embrace i
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