Language, Life and Logic

I am reprinting here a recent Substack article of mine in which I try to articulate in a very concise way some ideas and intuitions I have ...

Here is the link to my latest Substack piece: https://markenglish.substack.com/p/towpath-reflections If this Substack site (called Parsing t...

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,...

I am posting here the language-related paragraphs of a short piece entitled "Maltese culture and language" which appeared earlier ...

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...

Speculations about the impact of AI and imagined technological utopias or dystopias necessarily draw on – and reveal a lot about – our funda...

As we watch economies fail and societies move into the more advanced stages of dysfunction and dissolution, there is a lot of political fing...