seanessay.com You may have heard that after some agonizing over their traditional neutrality, Switzerland has followed the EU lead for freezing the bank accounts of oligarchs, and denying them entry to the alps. This from a country that once stored Nazi gold. The Swiss have surely done the right thing. Holocaust survivor and author of […]
Conversations at University
seanessay.com As I found in Derek Siver’s notes on the book Geography of Genius: “We’re not talking about conversation as a form of entertainment. We’re talking about conversation as the piling up of premises leading to a conclusion. We’re talking about conversation that takes an issue forward, conversation as a way of getting somewhere.” As […]
A Christmas Mondegreen Bright, with Social Covid Too
seanessay.com Today my blog has a short “bright” thingy… and then a long “boring” thingy, which—although super important— you will merely skim over, trust me. First, the bright: Have you ever sung, in the Beatles song, for Get Back, “Lady Modern” instead of Lady Martin? Or, for their LSD song, “The girl with colitis goes […]
Jung and Sue Face the Future
Jung and Sue sat silent in the still darkness. Jung said at last, “If we are to get a message to the king, show him Hardspear’s ring, then we can’t travel openly… We can’t stay at any inn. Can’t use public transport. It will be rough. Doable, but rough… I can do it alone, but […]
Social Media Obscures like Pond Scum
seanessay.com I often think of social media in the “long form.” For example, the stories that caused Europeans to burn cell towers, or the villagers in India to kill strangers, including a government man who had been sent to tell them not to kill, or, in America, causing a man to take a rifle into […]
How Everyone But Leftists Learn
seanessay.com From yesterday’s Free Fall Friday comes this a poem. Ignore my poetic license; Sir Winston Churchill did not exactly fail school, but he had his troubles. He started writing as a young man, and I am privileged to have several old volumes of his personal essays. Journalists may recall Strunk and White’s advice to […]