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'Rhetoric' doesn't need to be such an ugly word – it has a lot to teach echo-chambered America

Early on in my writing courses, I ask students to define their sense of rhetoric. Responses range from “persuasion” to “manipulation,” but they tend to share a negative connotation. Little wonder: In America today, the word is often used to dismiss a political opponent. Whereas a Democrat may find a…

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What Socrates' 'know nothing' wisdom can teach a polarized America

A common complaint in America today is that politics and even society as a whole are broken. Critics point out endless lists of what should be fixed: the complexity of the tax code, or immigration reform, or the inefficiency of government.

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Scared of the Dark review: The psychological torture of being locked in a room with Chris Eubank is TV gold

Channel 4 might have stumbled on a winning formula with this Danny Dyer-led reality TV experiment

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'Greek Lessons' is an intimate, vulnerable portrayal of two lonely people

Greek Lessons feels like a departure from Han Kang's other English-translated novels; tugging bit by bit at the heartstrings, readers are left speechless with both sadness and hope by the final pages.

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‘AI isn’t a threat’ – Boris Eldagsen, whose fake photo duped the Sony judges, hits back

The German artist caused uproar this week when he revealed the shot that won a prestigious award wasn’t what it seemed. But, he insists, AI isn’t about sidelining humans – it’s about liberating artists

The Guardian - UK

Scared of the Dark review: The psychological torture of being locked in a room with Chris Eubank is TV gold

Channel 4 might have stumbled on a winning formula with this Danny Dyer-led reality TV experiment

The Independent UK

Happy Puthandu 2023: Top 50 Tamil New Year Wishes, Messages and Quotes to share with your loved ones

Puthandu or the Tamil New Year is celebrated with great enthusiasm and fervour by Tamilians across the world. Every year, Puthandu is celebrated on the first day in the month of Chitterai, as per the Tamil calendar and it usually falls in mid-April in the Gregorian calendar. And so, this…

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Allison Schrager: AI-proofing your career starts in college

The job market has never offered any guarantees. Mechanization wiped out once-secure careers in manufacturing. Now artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for a future generation of jobs that had seemed safe, starting with software coding and back-office work. So what can we do about it?

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Bad beliefs: Misinformation is factually wrong – but is it ethically wrong, too?

The impact of disinformation and misinformation has become impossible to ignore. Whether it is denial about climate change, conspiracy theories about elections, or misinformation about vaccines, the pervasiveness of social media has given “alternative facts” an influence previously not possible.

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Valentine's Day: a brief history of the soulmate – and why it's a limited concept

One of the difficult things about working on the philosophy of love is that human relationships change, but our dominant images of love tend to remain the same.

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Tourists in our own reality: Susan Sontag's Photography at 50

This year marks 50 years since Susan Sontag’s essay Photography was published in the New York Review of Books. Slightly edited and renamed In Plato’s Cave, it would become the first essay in her collection On Photography, which has never been out of print.

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ChatGPT: Chatbots can help us rediscover the rich history of dialogue

It is time to take human-AI dialogue seriously again. With the release of sophisticated chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, effective human-AI dialogue has become interesting and accessible to everyone. Even to students writing essays, which has led to some academic concerns.

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Legally bookish: Reese Witherspoon and the boom in celebrity book clubs

The star has deposed Oprah Winfrey as queen of the online literary discussion groups – and plenty more A-listers are getting in on the act. Our reporter dives under the covers

The Guardian - UK

Lost city of Atlantis rises again to fuel a dangerous myth

Millions have watched Netflix hit Ancient Apocalypse, which is just the latest interpretation of an enduring tale. But in its appeal to ‘race science’ it’s more than merely controversial

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What is the difference between a populist and a dictator? The ancient Greeks have answers

Giorgia Meloni is Italy’s new prime minister. Her party, Fratelli d’Italia, received 26% of the vote and, as part of a far-right coalition, now controls a majority in both chambers of the legislature.

Inverse

Black Panther 2 is wading into the messy history of Atlantis

It's not just the home of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's villain — it's also a legend born in Greece, then warped by colonialism and, of course, aliens.

Salon

Kanye's hatred of books isn't hip-hop

Writing and reciting seemingly spontaneous rap lyrics on the spot – requires levels of verbal intelligence

The Guardian - UK

The friend zone: art, music, films and more about platonic love

From Michelangelo’s male muse to Sex Education’s best pals, we pick five passionate but ultimately chaste partnerships

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Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature

When Ye – the artist formerly known as Kanye West – stated during a recent podcast that he doesn’t read books, some people questioned whether he was sending the wrong message to children.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Guns for criminals? Texas judge’s gun rights ruling makes us less safe

When it comes to gun laws in this country, we are tipping from tragedy into farce. To be sure, the result will be yet more tragedy.

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Explainer: Socrates and the life worth living

Socrates was notoriously annoying. He was likened to a gadfly buzzing around while one is trying to sleep. The Oracle of Delphi declared him the wisest of all human beings. His life and death would go on to shape the history of Western thought.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: A history of the ‘Big Lie,’ from Plato to TikTok

A long time ago, a respected social critic expressed concern that a new medium would lead to lying.

The Hindu

The man who lived and shaped life beyond a boundary

CLR James was much too large to be squeezed into a single analogy

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What is love? In pop culture, love is often depicted as a willingness to sacrifice, but ancient philosophers took a different view

Woven through Thor: Love and Thunder, Taika Waititi’s latest contribution to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a sentimental and age-old commentary on mortality and love.

Evening Standard

Socrates and Plato matter far too much to be left just to Britain’s elite

My favourite subject at school was Philosophy. I loved it because it showed me that many of the questions I lazily pondered at night — such as why we should do right over wrong, and how we know who we are — have been vigorously debated for thousands of years.…

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