Tony Lashley

Principle one: ‘Turn every goddamned page’

Principle two: ‘The facts alone aren’t enough’

Principle three: ‘Truth takes time’

Yet unbelievably, Caro is not a slow writer by nature. He admits how when he wrote copy in the newsroom, it was a pace judged “astonishing” by his colleagues. No, Robert Caro is actually a slow writer by choice. Before starting... See more

The majority theory is that the ceiling's main frescoes were applied and painted in phases, with the scaffolding each time dismantled and moved to another part of the room.

The point is that longtermism might be one of the most influential ideologies that few people outside of elite universities and Silicon Valley have ever heard about. I believe this needs to change because, as a former longtermist who published an entire book four years ago in defence of the general idea, I have come to see this worldview as quite p... See more

In her will, Hilma af Klint wrote that her abstract works must not be made accessible to the public until at least twenty years after her death. She was convinced that their full meaning could not be understood until then. One hundred years ago, Hilma af Klint painted pictures for the future.