ON 9 JULY 1955, at a press conference in London’s Caxton Hall, the British philosopher Bertrand Russell releases a manifesto ...

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You read these never-ending debates over supposedly reforming the Upper House and it makes you wonder if anything will ever really change. It feels like an elaborate metaphor for the state of this ...

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Philosophy is indispensable for intellecutal progress but needs to avoid the seven sins of dogmatism, arrogance, obscurity, isolation, irrelevance, narrowness, and nihilism.

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But he does a great job of lining up the witnesses to make his case — Czech novelist Milan Kundera, Bengali writer Shibram ...

After all, money, as Bertrand Russell once said, is the accepted measure of brains. In other words, we tend to equate financial success with intelligence, often ignoring intangible human qualities.