Ideas & Culture - Dr Robert N. Winter (Page 4)

Ghost Writers: Rise of the Machines

Ultimately, I do not think the problem is that we are building machines so ‘smart’ that their output is indistinguishable from human compositions. The problem is that we are educating humans whose output is so illiterate, and devoid of experience, it is indistinguishable from computer generated text

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 4 Feb 2023

Inner Circle Only

An Opportunity Afforded

This is why some people will look at a library and see a wealth of opportunity, while others will see the same space and same books and apprehend only barriers to entry or exclusion from a world in which they think they have no part to play.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 4 Jan 2023

As 'An' Historian

Modernists may disagree, but if challenged by these dangerous revolutionaries, refer them to the below and the glorious roots of our language.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 16 Dec 2022

Autodeleting the Public Record

Rage if you will and burn screen time if you like—I simply accept if I want my thoughts to be personal and private then I ought not post them online.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 9 Dec 2022

Image of the facade of the National Archives of Finland depicting letters of alphabets and various symbols which are archived

Review: Doom, The Politics of Catastrophe

So long as we keep our heads while all around are loosing theirs, never dwelling too long on exaggerated threats, we are in a position to muddle through.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 22 Nov 2022

Image of the Hindenburg airship catching on fire during its attempt to dock

Twas Gunpowder Treason Day

As late as 2015 in Great Britain, Royals who married Catholics were removed from the line of succession, and Prime Ministers avoided disclosing their Catholicism in office.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 5 Nov 2022

A contemporary engraving of eight of the thirteen conspirators, by Crispijn van de Passe.

Reading More Efficiently And Effectively

I can well picture 'Hitch', cigarette languidly hanging from the corner of his mouth, hand clasped around a whisky glass, tossing the book toward the wastepaper bin, and then leaning back in his chair. Content in the knowledge he had repaid the reading in the only way fit.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 18 Oct 2022

CR III Royal Cypher

The design of the CR III cipher was produced by the College of Arms and continues a tradition of heraldry that has bound individual monarchs to the institution of monarchy for over a thousand years.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 13 Oct 2022

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Royal Cypher of King Charles III, which reads 'C III R' for 'Carolus III Rex', which means King Charles III in Latin.

The Sources of Soviet Conduct

Today's Russia is pursuing the same aims as in 1946: autarchy for Russia and Russian-dominated adjacent areas by a leader, under pressure from nationalistic backers, who has miscalculated the situation.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 24 Sep 2022

Lenin, Trotsky and Kamenev celebrating the second anniversary of the October Revolution, 7 November 1919

On Fairy-Stories and the Art of Fantasy

'Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.'

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 21 Sep 2022

With a Quiet Heart

The Queen was an ever constant in a changeable and unpredictable world. Over seven decades, she was always there for us.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 19 Sep 2022

The Subjective Nature of 'Nothing to Hide'

Whether you have something to hide has far more to do with who is looking than what they can see.

By Dr Robert N. Winter

/ 30 Jul 2022

The Subjective Nature of 'Nothing to Hide'