Category: Books
A Theoretical ‘Case Against Education’
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: There’s been renewed debate around Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against…
Translating is Like X-raying a Book. You Get a Deep Tissue Read.
Hephzibah Anderson in The Guardian: Sam Taylor, 53, was living in rural France with four…
“The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction”
Soni Wadhwa in the Asian Review of Books: Detective fiction in the West is often…
A Brief History of Failed Attempts at Human Flight
Joe Fassler at Lit Hub: Years ago, for reasons I still don’t fully understand, I…
The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
Lucy Moore at Literary Review: After they were released from prison in Paris in the…
What Would a Fair Society Look Like?
by Jeroen Bouterse at 3 Quarks Daily: In 2015, political scientist Larry Diamond warned against…
Learning a Language Involves the Body, Not Just the Brain
Michael Erard in the European Review of Books: Language as self, language learning as magic,…
The Rise of Mesoeconomics
William H. Janeway at Project Syndicate: Whether mobilizing for war or (re)constructing advanced manufacturing capabilities…
In the Corporate World, Woke Is the Rage But Greed Is Still King
James Stewart in The New York Times: It’s been 14 years since Goldman Sachs was vilified…
Israel, Gaza, and McNamara’s Lessons for War and Peace
by Ashutosh Jogalekar at 3 Quarks Daily: Once again the world faces death and destruction,…
She Wrote ‘The History of White People.’ She Has a Lot More to Say.
Jennifer Szalai in The New York Times: As the historian Nell Irvin Painter has learned over…
Fareed Zakaria and Our Tumultuous World
Anita Jain in the Washington Times: In his latest book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash…