The trouble with Nietzche—who in any case never prescribed instructions regarding conduct while being hand-cuffed on chilly floors in undignified circumstances—is that you can never be sure when he’s doing some levity or not. Read more ›
“When I saw what my father went through in 1986 I didn’t want anything to do with politics,” [Bongbong Marcos] says. “I wanted to make money.” Read more ›
Without thinking twice, I approached the soft-spoken Lamy sales staff and said that I would be buying the pen, even before examining it. I spoke in Filipino—which some Indonesians understand better than say, English—and, in a few seconds, the language of commerce transcended our constraints. Read more ›
Another idea from Rory Sutherland: the U.K. guidelines for patients with mild problems coming from alcohol are to reduce the daily consumption to under a certain number of grams of alcohol per day. Read more ›
Storify.com—the platform used by major organizations including but not limited to CNN—introduced InterAksyon.com to its more than 64,000 followers on Twitter. Read more ›
Further, many writers and scholars speak in private, say, after half a bottle of wine, differently from the way they do in print. Their writing is certifiably fake, fake. And many of the problems of society come from the agument “other people are doing it.” So if I call someone a dangerous ethically challenged fragilista in private after the third glass of Lebanese wine (white), I will be obligated to do so here. Read more ›