The late Jason Arday: Gulliver among the Lilliputians?
And other highlights of my week
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Academia: from inefficient effectiveness to efficient ineffectiveness
The great failure of university reform wasn’t intensifying competition, but gormlessly ignoring the prior question: what institutions and public goods govern what competitive success looks like?
Defending the West
And other highlights of my suburban week
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). Full guide
ChatGPT's sleuthing of independent reviews for your guidance
The public goods we couldn’t imagine
All ChatGPT knows and all ye need to know
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) guide
ChatGPT's sleuthing of independent reviews for your guidance
Monoculturalism anyone?
And many other things encountered along the way
Social fabric: The Price of What Survives
Some reflections on the social fabric (which we've taken to calling 'social capital')
On becoming less full of shit
And other fine things I discovered on the net recently
Synthetic (AI) generated towns
Starting with this article I got intrigued and infuriated in equal measure because the journalism didn’t explain what was going on.
Rearranging the deckchairs on HMS Unserious
And other things - not just the new British PM