The Examined Life
Substacknewsletter · by Alexander Thompson · English
A look at the exams of yesterday
- Audience
- Not shown publicly
- We show a dash rather than guess
- Observed frequency
- Every two weeks
- From 6 posts indexed in the last 90 days
- Last post
- Nov 6, 2026
- 5 days ago
- Likely audience
- education researchers
- Inferred from post content
The Examined Life is a Substack newsletter by Alexander Thompson covering educational philosophy, history of education and classics in education. NewsletterFIT indexed 6 posts from it in the last 90 days, most recently on Nov 6, 2026.
Topics
- educational philosophy
- history of education
- classics in education
- science vs humanities
- Thomas Huxley
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