Ben McLaughin (b.1969)Borges approaches his essay “A new refutation of time” with a razor-sharp wit & feather-soft nuance that knows no bounds. My current conjecture is but an attempt to nitpick. The “new” in the title of his essay, which might come off as a contradictio in adjecto, is a humorous approach Borges deliberately uses as an attempt to downplay the gravity of his refutation. In the essay Borges grapples with the idealism of Berkeley and Hume’s opinion on it, taking idealism to what...