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Why Are Some Of Our Most Successful Leaders Mentally Ill? On Milei, Musk, and Trump
4 hours ago
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The End of Cheap Progressive Signalling And Why That Might Be a Good Thing For Progressive Causes
a week ago
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How the Bud Light Debacle Predicted America's Corporate Vibe Shift Lessons In Navigating The Culture War
a week ago
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Banishing The Inner Critic How Madison Keys Learned To Care Less and Win More
2 weeks ago
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Stop Making Sense David Lynch, Bob Dylan, and the Beauty of the Inexplicable
3 weeks ago
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How I Use ChatGPT Getting the Most From LLMs
4 weeks ago
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How To Love Classical Music And Why You Should
a month ago
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Notes On the Great Vibe Shift The Extraordinary Impact of Trump's Second Victory
a month ago
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The Death of Scenius Urban Creativity Isn't What It Was
a month ago
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James Marriott on Neil Postman: Are We Making Ourselves Stupid? A Conversation About 'Amusing Ourselves To Death'
a month ago
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How - and Why - To Read... ...in a World That's Giving Up On It
a month ago
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Best of The Ruffian 2024 Catch-up service:
a month ago
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Are Young Voters Turning Right? Part II of my Podcast With James Kanagasooriam, plus a Rattle Bag of Goodies
2 months ago
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The Enigma of Luigi Mangione And the Madness Of His Apologists
2 months ago
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How Did Politics Get So Weird? James Kanagasooriam Explains Everything
2 months ago
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My Ten Favourite Books of the Year Plus a Rattle Bag of Goodies (and a special Christmas offer)
2 months ago
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Maybe Your Opinion Is Just a Feeling About a Story On Changing My Mind About the Elgin Marbles. Plus: How To Get Hold of An Advance Copy of 'John &...
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2 months ago
On Changing My Mind About the Elgin Marbles. Plus: How To Get Hold of An Advance Copy of 'John & Paul'. Plus a Juicy Rattle Bag of Goodies.
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James Marriott on Jordan Peterson The inaugural episode of The Ruffian's podcast
2 months ago
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The Six Million Dollar Banana Why I Find Conceptual Artists Inspiring
2 months ago
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The Ad That Radicalised Me Britain's Assisted Dying Debate
2 months ago
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What Does It Mean For a Brand To Be Radical? Thoughts on Jaguar's Relaunch, Plus a Juicy Cultural Rattle Bag
3 months ago
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The Unreal Thing What Coca Cola's Christmas Ad and Ben Affleck Tell Us About AI and the Future of the Creative...
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What Coca Cola's Christmas Ad and Ben Affleck Tell Us About AI and the Future of the Creative Industries
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Are You Charismatic Or Charming? Time To Decide
3 months ago
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Why Does Donald Trump Keep Happening? Notes On The Election
3 months ago
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Who Has The Better Final Pitch? It's Closing Time In America
3 months ago
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Why You Should Ignore All the Polls They Aren't Telling Anything You Need To Know
3 months ago
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In (Partial) Defence of Jeff Bezos It's Weird That Newspapers Endorse Politicians
3 months ago
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The Historian and the Culture Warrior Plus: Thoughts on Responses To the Kaba Verdict
3 months ago
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Why Giving Up On The Humanities Is Self-Destructive The Economic Case For the Liberal Arts In the Age of AI
4 months ago
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The Orangutan Theory of Intelligence Why Thinking In Pairs Is Powerful and What It Tells Us About AI
4 months ago
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Introducing 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs' Free To Read (This Post, Not the Book)
4 months ago
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Unveiling 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs' Yes It's an Actual Book With a Cover and Everything
4 months ago
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Why Britain's Elites Shun Highbrow Culture The Signal Has Flipped
4 months ago
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How the World Failed Greta Thunberg The Perils of Praising Teenagers
4 months ago
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Is Culture Dying? And if it is, should we mourn it?
5 months ago
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How To Be Charles Darwin Nine Darwinian Habits of Mind and Behaviour
5 months ago
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The Story Behind the Greatest Guitar Solo in Rock History The Dark Energies Behind Prince's Moment of Genius
5 months ago
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Last of the Curmudgeons Catch-up service:
5 months ago
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My Book of the Year Yes, I'm Calling It Early
5 months ago
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Why Are Americans Growing Less Comfortable With Speaking Up? The Paradox of the Internet
6 months ago
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Is Forgiveness a Power Move? Plus a very juicy rattle bag which includes my favourite ever sad song
6 months ago
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20 Observations On Friendship Plus a Rattle Bag of Juicy Links
6 months ago
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'Weird' Should Not Be An Insult Not If You're On The Left Anyway
6 months ago
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Nike's Winning Strategy On the Cultural Significance of Its 2024 Olympics Campaign
7 months ago
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No, Joe Biden Is Not a Hero There's Only One Politician Who Comes Out Of This Well
7 months ago
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The Trump Shooting Was Fake News On Events and Non-Events
7 months ago
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Five Bad Motivations With Good Outcomes Plus a Rattle Bag of Juicy Links
7 months ago
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Do You Wear the Mask or Does the Mask Wear you? Novak Djokovic, Boris Johnson, and the Art of Creating a Professional Persona
7 months ago
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Congrats Keir, You Won, Now Change Prime Minister Starmer Needs To Be Very Different To Opposition Leader Starmer
7 months ago
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Joe Biden? Why It's Hard and What Will Happen
7 months ago
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The Age of Centrist Heroes Is Over I Hope You Like Pizza
7 months ago
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Birth Of the Nudge Economy Minutes of a momentous meeting in Napa Valley
8 months ago
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Creativity Needs Stupidity How artists think and unthink
8 months ago
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Why You Have an Obligation To Be Optimistic The Ethics of Emotional Disposition
8 months ago
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Britain's Peculiar Brand of Patriotism, In Three Ads Heroes To Zeroes
8 months ago
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The Renaissance Redux 'Notes On the Florentine Renaissance' Free To Read This Time
8 months ago
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Why Things Might Actually Be About To Get Better Reasons For National Optimism
9 months ago
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Seven Underrated Forms of of Diversity Different Kinds of Difference At Work
9 months ago
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Why Margaret Thatcher Didn't Jump The Difference Between Charisma and Charm
9 months ago
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Zadie Smith and the 'Both Sides' Problem On Centrist Meta-Commentaries
9 months ago
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Notes on a History of the Florentine Renaissance The Return of The Ruffian's Book Club
9 months ago
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The Good Enough Trap How Technology Can Get Us Stuck In Place
9 months ago
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What's the Point Of Protests? Maybe Not What We Think It Is
10 months ago
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The Standing Ovation Theory of Everything Why Our Choices Are Never Ours Alone
10 months ago
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27 Takes On What It Means To Be a Serious Person Plus a rattle bag of goodies
10 months ago
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The Sunak Question Why Has the Tory Party's Great Hope Been So Bad At the Job?
10 months ago
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Why Does Being Left-Wing Make You Unhappy? The Ideological Well-Being Gap
10 months ago
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How Silicon Valley Hacked the Science of Human Behaviour Revisiting My 2016 Piece on The Phones
10 months ago
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Can You Imitate a Genius? What the new Amy Winehouse film tells us about singing, talent, and AI
10 months ago
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Why London's Famous Penguin Pool Has No Penguins In It A Tale From My Trip To The Zoo
10 months ago
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Am I Anti-Woke? Self-Reflection Inspired by Nick Cave, Plus a Taxonomy of Woke, Plus Rattle Bag
10 months ago
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Why It's Good To Be Biased When everyone is rational, reasonable and nice, we all get a little dimmer
11 months ago
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In Praise of Slow Learners How the Tortoise Beats the Hare
11 months ago
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The State of the Culture Is...Not Bad, Actually Reflections on a good year for the Oscars
11 months ago
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Delusional self-belief is a superpower until it's a disaster What's the optimal amount of self-deception for a politician?
11 months ago
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The Google Gemini Debacle Shows Us Why Office Politics Matters More Than Ever On the Real Alignment Problem
12 months ago
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Rattle Bag On a plot hole in Macbeth and much else besides
12 months ago
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Hitler's Willing Executioners On the genocidal mindset
a year ago
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How To Fix DEI 'Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion' That Works
a year ago
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42 Reflections On the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything An oldie but goldie
a year ago
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Opposites Attract On the Gender Divide In Politics and Why It Might Just Save Us All
a year ago
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Five Myths About Trump Why We Keep Underestimating Him
a year ago
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The Ruffian Speaks For Money
a year ago
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Ten Useful Concepts Drop them into the conversation, all casual like
a year ago
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Notes on Radiohead The weirdest success story in pop
a year ago
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If Gervais and Chappelle are so unfunny why are they so popular? An enquiry into the nature of comedy
a year ago
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Leslie's Razors Nine Rules of Thumb For Life
a year ago
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The Battle of Bamber Bridge What happened when English villagers encountered black Americans during World War II?
a year ago
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The Ruffian's Greatest Hits 2023 This Year's Top Ten Posts As Voted On By Me
a year ago
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Movies as Discourse Generators Notes on Recent Films
a year ago
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Seduced By The Machine Why We Allow Apps and Corporations To Tell Us How To Live
a year ago
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My Year In Reading Books I Read Or At Least Picked Up In 2023
a year ago
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Lessons In How Not To Lead From the Dept. of What Were They Thinking
a year ago
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Rattle Bag History, learning, screw-ups, and suitcase-packing
a year ago
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The End of History Academic historians are destroying their own discipline
a year ago
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Thirty-One Insights Into Art, Writing and the Creative Process Nuggets from my commonplace book
a year ago
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The Biden Conundrum On the president's prospects, plus a rattle bag of stimulants and delights
a year ago
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Special Edition: John and Paul A Brief Note On Something To Look Forward To
a year ago
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How To Swear At Your Coworkers Two Ways To Use Bad Language In The Workplace
a year ago
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How to process news of the Israel-Hamas conflict A guide for the ignorant and perplexed like me
a year ago
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On not tolerating intolerance Why all companies, institutions and leaders should care about free speech
a year ago
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On Certain Asymmetries A few thoughts on how we talk about the Israel-Hamas war
a year ago
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Why you should only trust people with imposter syndrome Or how to tell the difference between Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried
a year ago
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What makes the perfect creative brief? And how to write a brief for yourself
a year ago
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Can we blame Sam Bankman-Fried's parents for Sam Bankman-Fried? Can we blame anyone for anything?
a year ago
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Winners and Losers How the Zero Sum Mindset Shapes Society
a year ago
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The best reason to believe Woody Allen is innocent is the simplest one How we form opinions on limited information
a year ago
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Len vs Glenn How Leonard Bernstein turned a crisis into a productive disagreement
a year ago
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The problem with "educate yourself" Why there's only one acceptable way to use it
a year ago
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Stories are bad for your intelligence How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Stupid
a year ago
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Barbearheimer Notes on Barbie, Oppenheimer, and The Bear
a year ago
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The Social Media Cage Fight A Rattle Bag of Goodies, Including Some Shameless Self-Promotion
a year ago
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A Brief History of Suburban Creativity The power of not being with the in-crowd
a year ago
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Yog, Andy, and George Wham! and the Struggle For Fun
a year ago
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Rattle Bag A Summer Feast of Brain Food
a year ago
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The Wile E. Coyote Illusion Have you looked down yet?
a year ago
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Threads Isn't Toxic Enough Why I'm sticking with Twitter For Now
a year ago
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The Infrastructure of Genius Behind every radical breakthrough is someone trying hold back change (or what ABBA and Adam Smith...
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Behind every radical breakthrough is someone trying hold back change (or what ABBA and Adam Smith have in common)
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When will an AI win the Booker? A reflection on whether novelists will ever be made obsolete by ChatGPT
a year ago
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Rattle Bag Thoughts on the Boris brand, Biden's prospects, why the Brits got so good at pop, and what to read.
a year ago
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Thoughts on the Boris brand, Biden's prospects, why the Brits got so good at pop, and what to read.
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FLASHPOINTS #12: Are machines becoming more intelligent than us - and what does that even mean? A conversation with Professor David Krakauer
a year ago
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Notes on Succession Life is not a story
a year ago
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A Ruffian Catch-Up In Case You Missed...
a year ago