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Sunday, February 18, 2024
L.L. Zamenhof and Zionism
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The other day, walking through a small park in the district of Pietà on my way to Valletta, I was surprised to see a bust of L.L. Zamenhof,...
Language policies in Malta
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I am posting here the language-related paragraphs of a short piece entitled "Maltese culture and language" which appeared earlier ...
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Shorelines
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There is something universal about seas and oceans and even standing on the shore you can sense it. Last year on a beach on a Greek island I...
Sunday, December 18, 2022
AI, work and human dignity
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Speculations about the impact of AI and imagined technological utopias or dystopias necessarily draw on – and reveal a lot about – our funda...
Monday, September 12, 2022
Against ideology
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As we watch economies fail and societies move into the more advanced stages of dysfunction and dissolution, there is a lot of political fing...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Remarks on culture and religion
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I want to recapitulate here and expand on some points I made elsewhere in partial response to a piece written by Daniel Kaufman entitled &q...
Sunday, July 24, 2022
The decline of literacy
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I find myself frequently having to modify and simplify my language to avoid misunderstandings. This is partly because of traditional diverge...
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