HeyJaredA C Grayling
Professor of Philosophy, author: philosophy, politics, history of ideas, culture.
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El Cid Rides Again (opens the original)
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When Charlton Heston, convincingly playing a corpse, cinematically led the forces of Valencia out to battle the Moors, he lent glamour to the legend of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, a.k.a. El Cid. The famous occasion was the (failed) attempt by El Cid to relieve the siege of Valencia in 1099 CE. He had captured the city five years before from the Moors, ruled it for five years, and probably died of siege-induced starvation. The drama of the legend obscures the fact that Rodrigo was an equivocal figure,
When the worst lose shame (opens the original)
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To read the eighth chapter of Jill Lepore’s We the People describing the political struggles in the US over the Constitution in the first decades of the twentieth century is to read about the political struggles over the Constitution that will (perhaps ‘and/or should’ is more appropriate, given inertia, ‘business as usual’ sentiments, and the impediment of the Constitution itself) consume the US in the second quarter of the twenty-first century. If awareness of history did its work well, these s
Tremetic (opens the original)
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When language needs a new word, someone will come up with it, or will inspire it. Trump is a renamer, as witness ‘Gulf of America’ and ‘Trump Kennedy Centre’ etc., so ‘AI’ is now by his fiat ‘Superintelligence’. That most AI is task-specific and super-effective rather than super intelligent escapes him. He says AI won’t kill us because climate change hasn’t killed us. (Someone should introduce him to the word ‘yet’.) He says that worriers about AI and climate change are the same people (here he
Gazunda (opens the original)
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Churchill called the chamber pot under his bed ‘gazunda’ (because it goes under) – one of those details that serves as a seed from which to grow a forest of speculations, not so much about Churchill or his sleeping in the bedroom in the War Rooms under Whitehall, which he rarely did because he disliked it – a man who worked in bed (like Descartes) needed space on the quilt for papers, a big ashtray, somewhere to perch the brandy glass, and room for secretaries and visiting Cabinet ministers and
Music to the Ears (opens the original)
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Listen to, or read the transcript of, an Atlantic interview with Pete Buttigieg that has just dropped:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/09/pete-buttigieg-democrats-trump-midterms/688666/?utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20260918&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&lctg=6050eeb74953a53f149a27ec&utm
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