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Present at the Destruction
January 5, 2026 at 1:27 AM
digitaleditionapp.ft.com/i9DX/vry6kjax @timharford.ft.com also has a piece on Joseph Heath in this weekend’s FT.
November 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
open.substack.com/pub/josephhe...
This piece gives an excellent analysis of how rhetorical ways and means have changed.
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Since the start (of Rhetoric at least) we’ve known ethos trumps pathos trumps logos.
While the means of manipulating each may have changed, I don’t buy that logos ever assumed dominance- as enlightened as we wish we once were or could indeed be.
November 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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That’s a fair TL:DR of the Brit version of what happened at Pristina airport (heavily influenced by the well-publicised reminiscences of the two individuals you mentioned). Watching it in real time from Moscow led me to a different conclusion though.

www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...
September 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Have you heard of The man in seat 61?

www.seat61.com/index-mobile...
The Man in Seat 61 | The train travel guide
The mobile home page of the Man in Seat 61, the guide to train travel in the UK, Europe & worldwide.
www.seat61.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM