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The Shrinking Truth Horizon
- Culture, Featured, Philosophy
- January 21, 2026

Minneapolis teachers were striking for a fourth consecutive day Friday on bridges and overpasses throughout the city. Some 4,500 members of the Minneapolis Teachers Federation and Education Support Professionals are demanding more compensation, improved working conditions, and smaller class sizes. “Our fight is against the patriarchy, our fight is against capitalism, our fight is for
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We’ve all either heard or posed the question: If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? But a more appropriate question might be, If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy? An article last month in the business section of The Atlantic tackles that question in an interview with Raj Raghunathan, author of If You’re
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On the first Tuesday of November millions of Americans will turn out to cast their ballots. Unfortunately, most of them are probably idiots. Now, I don’t mean that as an insult based on the modern sense of the word “idiot”, i.e., someone who is simple and stupid. It’s more of a lament based on the ancient
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Human beings today now have a shorter attention span than a goldfish. That’s what a study conducted by Microsoft last year found. A goldfish loses focus after nine seconds. In our age of smartphones, however, the average person today can only focus for eight seconds. That’s a dramatic change from 2000, when the average human
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More than 100 women were convicted of sexual offences in the UK in 2015. The figures, obtained via a freedom of information request, show the number of convictions almost trebled in a decade. Among those convicted were a number of school staff, including teachers, a head teacher and a teaching assistant. The attractive female teacher
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The novelist Martin Amis is the son of Kingsley Amis, whose Lucky Jim (1954) was a spectacular success. Noting the father’s “brilliance and ‘facile bravura,’” Atlantic critic Geoffrey Wheatcroft asserted that Martin “misunderstood his hereditary gifts when he turned from playful comedy to ‘the great issues of our time.’” Among his “great issues” is that of Nazi concentration camps,
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