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At Daily Stoic: So many people struggle with and get frustrated by Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations…and they have ever since it was first discovered after the emperor’s death nearly twenty centuries
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr at The New Yorker (from 1995): The two weeks spanning the O. J. Simpson verdict and Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March on Washington were a good time
by Ashutosh Jogalekar: As the saying goes, if you believe only fascists guard borders, then you will ensure that only fascists will guard borders. The same principle applies to scientists
by Jerry Cayford: It’s a book about how our political system fell into this downward spiral—a doom loop of toxic politics. It’s a story that requires thinking big—about the nature
That’s the cold-sweat-inducing premise of the two books, Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War” and Sarah Scoles’s “Countdown”–Barry Gewen, a longtime editor at the NY Times Book Review who retired in 2022,
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Sunstein and Thaler in The New Yorker: In 1968, Tversky and Kahneman were both rising stars in the psychology department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They had little else in
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The NY Times writes: Aleksei Navalny’s memoir, written during the years leading up to his death in a Russian prison, will be published in October. Titled “Patriot,” the memoir will
Continue reading‘Patriot’: Posthumous Memoir By Aleksei Navalny, the Russian Opp. Leader
William H. Janeway at Project Syndicate: The detective in a typical British crime procedural would say that Mordecai Kurz “has got form.” An emeritus professor at Stanford University, Kurz received his doctorate
Nicholas Gordan with the author John Zubrzycki: Post-independence India had a big problem–about 40% of its land wasn’t, well, India. Instead, this land was in the hands of the princely
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Jonathan Chatwin in the Asian Review of Books: Eric Arthur Blair once wrote that he was born into the “lower-upper-middle class”, having cachet but no capital. His father had been
Yascha Mounk and Alexandra Hudson in Persuasion: Alexandra Hudson is a writer, an adjunct professor at the Indiana University Lilly School of Philanthropy, and the founder of the publication Civic Renaissance.
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Eighty percent of successful CEOs come from within their companies, but many of them think like outsiders. The New York Times bestseller CEO Excellence is based on 67 interviews with
Continue readingQualities of a Great CEO—and, By Implication, Great Leaders