Category: Books
The Kennedys And The Women They Destroyed
Louis Bayard at The NY Times: In the opening sentence of her rage-swollen “Ask Not,”…
The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
Fitzroy Morrissey at Literary Review: Shortly before his death in 1974, R C Zaehner, Spalding…
Ray Kurzweil Predicts Three Technologies Will Define Our Future
Sveta McShane in Singularity Hub: Over the last several decades, the digital revolution has changed nearly…
Ray Dalio: The Coming Great Conflict
“From studying 50-plus civil wars and revolutions, it became clear that the single most reliable…
I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
Marisa Wright at The Millions: In Glynnis MacNicol’s second memoir, I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself, pleasure…
Yeats and the Sense of an Ending
Civilisation is hooped together, broughtUnder a rule, under the semblance of peaceBy manifold illusion; but…
Leo Strauss’ Published But Uncollected English Writings
Glenn Ellmers at The New Criterion: Can anyone help us understand the madness afflicting Western…
J. P. Mallory: Indo-Europeans Found?
Razib Khan at Razib Khan’s Unsupervised Learning: J. P. Mallory, discusses his reaction to the…
Why I am a Jew
by David Winner at 3 Quarks Daily: Throughout most of my life, I periodically napped…
‘In Two Minds’: Callie Siskel Reflects on the Ghost of Her Famous Father
By J. Howard Rosier at Poetry Foundation: The legacy of the deceased may truncate one’s…
Why Sharks Matter: A Deep Dive with the World’s Most Misunderstood Predator
Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: When it comes to protecting animal species, you would…
Israel’s Descent
Adam Shatz at the London Review of Books: When Ariel Sharon withdrew more than eight…