Putting the Happy Back in New Year – SusanEisenhower
Finding an effective way forward in 2025 will require a change in thinking.| SusanEisenhower
Listen to the author reading this blog post. by Liz Walter Some people seem to sail happily through life, always looking forward to what’s coming next and always expecting things to go well. Others are quite the opposite, always expecting bad things to happen. Today’s post looks at some of the language we use … Continue reading Glass half full: talking about optimism and pessimism The post Glass half full: talking about optimism and pessimism appeared first on About Words - Cambridge...| About Words – Cambridge Dictionary blog
by Paul Temple Call me a sad old geezer, but I’m finding the never-ending positivity that characterises LinkedIn’s sunshine world rather wearing. To take one example, the “comment” options you’re offered after each post might run from “awesome“, through “love … Continue reading →| SRHE Blog
This essay, on the lessons of Milton for the politics of today, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 2 March 2025, under the headline “For a stagnating left mired in pessimism, Milton’s radical vision is poetry in motion”. “Is this pessimism?”, TJ Clark asks in his 2012 essay For a Left with No Future. “Well, yes.” How else, he wonders, “are we meant to understand the arrival of real ruin in the order of global finance… and the almost complete […]| Pandaemonium
Finding an effective way forward in 2025 will require a change in thinking.| SusanEisenhower
PDF The Iliad, or, The Poem of Force was written in the summer and fall of 1940, after the fall of France .. It may thus be read as an indirect commentary on that tragic event, which signalized the…| communists in situ
