Category: Books
Beating Slow Horses
Brad East in The Hedgehog Review: The conceit at the heart of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses novels is…
Why Habits are the “Compound Interest” of Self-Improvement
Atomic Habits: The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 15 million copies sold! An Easy…
Should Children Have Smartphones?
Author Haidt: Social Media is Spreading Mental Illness New York Times Book Review: Social psychologist…
Guide to Reading Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
At Daily Stoic: So many people struggle with and get frustrated by Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations…and…
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Black Man
Henry Louis Gates, Jr at The New Yorker (from 1995): The two weeks spanning the…
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nukes?
by Ashutosh Jogalekar: As the saying goes, if you believe only fascists guard borders, then…
The Case For Multiparty Democracy
by Jerry Cayford: It’s a book about how our political system fell into this downward…
Let’s Say Someone Did Drop the Bomb. Then What?
That’s the cold-sweat-inducing premise of the two books, Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War” and Sarah Scoles’s…
The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think
Sunstein and Thaler in The New Yorker: In 1968, Tversky and Kahneman were both rising stars…
‘Patriot’: Posthumous Memoir By Aleksei Navalny, the Russian Opp. Leader
The NY Times writes: Aleksei Navalny’s memoir, written during the years leading up to his…
Is Techno-Monopoly Inevitable?
William H. Janeway at Project Syndicate: The detective in a typical British crime procedural would…
“Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States”
Nicholas Gordan with the author John Zubrzycki: Post-independence India had a big problem–about 40% of…