Book Notes: “Enemies of the Enlightenment” by Darrin M McMahon
We are children of the Enlightenment. Alas, according to this study, we are also shaped by the attacks that shaped the Enlightenment.
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Book Notes: “The Hermit in the Garden” by Gordon Campbell
In Georgian England, you could be hired to live as a hermit on a rich person’s land…Right about now, it sounds almost too good to be true.
The Spanish Civil War: A Product of Appeasement
It did surprise me how much I did not know about the Spanish Civil War. It’s as if all trace of it is scrubbed from historical summaries of the leadup to WWII
The Deification of Technology
We have fooled ourselves into perceiving our technology as neutral, detached from our own biased and irrational ways.
Sunday Morning! “The Golden House”
In his recent novel, Salman Rushdie shows how reinventing oneself is damned hard to pull off, even in New York.
Forgiveness is Divine
The weirdest thing about forgiveness is that in the end it really isn’t about the person you’re forgiving, it’s about you.
To Stand Athwart Myth
To dive deeper into the implications of Mark Greif’s “Against Everything,” Roland Barthes’ “Mythologies” is required.
An Admirable Attempt: Theodore Dalrymple’s Admirable Evasions
The problem with psychology, and the seductive fallacy of “studies have shown.”
Book Review: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
In a sense, it is the perfect speculative fiction novel, even as it pays unspoken homage to a similarly-themed book by very different authors from thirty-eight years ago.
