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Richard Farr
- Aug 2, 2019
Richard Farr
- Jul 28, 2019
Richard Farr
- Jun 6, 2019
Richard Farr
- May 16, 2019
The time traveler’s dilemma and techno-cultural prejudice
What if you had to move – not to another city or country but to either the future or the past? I ran across this Rawlesian thought...
Richard Farr
- Mar 1, 2019
Those who would be king
Authoritarianism is on the rise … measurably. Nobel prize-winning economist Angus Deaton has said that one of the most fundamental...
Richard Farr
- Feb 28, 2019
The brutal irony of brutalised Brutalists
In this article in the Guardian on the subject of famous “Brutalist” buildings under threat from demolition, I note with interest and...
Richard Farr
- Dec 17, 2018
Brilliant idiom
Over dinner in London, a fascinating discussion is launched by my American friend John A., who has been in-country for months but is...
Richard Farr
- Oct 11, 2018
Pry social media from your own trembling hands?
Should you place a hood over the evil Facebook, blast Twitter out of its tree, and rip up all your Instagrams? You really should,...
Richard Farr
- Aug 24, 2018
Speaking as a human being; on identity (politics) and intersectionality.
Excellent Op-Ed in the New York Times from a couple of weeks ago by (my once-upon-a-time teacher) Kwame Anthony Appiah, applying his...
Richard Farr
- Aug 22, 2018
A Dad named Denis(ova)
Not an actual picture of the individual in question Fascinating – working in the Russian cave where bones of Denisovans were first found,...
Richard Farr
- Mar 22, 2018
Unlike
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scanda l (an extraordinarily ugly story for the age of Trump), I have deleted my Facebook account....
Richard Farr
- Aug 21, 2017
Road trip to the dark side of the Sun
After a drive from Seattle to L.A., straight down I-5, I took a more easterly, more scenic route home through a swath of America I’d...
Richard Farr
- Jan 7, 2016
“Are you religious?”
No. I was brought up in the Church of England, and I loved (and still love) the language and the music. But when I was 14 I realized...
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