The Rigor of Angels: Kant, Borges, Heisenberg
"Humanity forgets... that it is a rigor of chess masters, not of angels." —Borges
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The Delirium of Reason: On William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984)
"Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, names the owners seek to conceal. True names."
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Montaigne, Mary Emerson, and the Race to Own Yourself
"Always do what you are afraid to do." —Mary Moody Emerson
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The Social Mobility Illusion
A short summary of the most remarkable economics book I've read this year, Gregory Clark's The Son Also Rises (2014)
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Intent on Truth: St. Augustine's Philosophy of History in The City of God
"Life eternal is the supreme good, death eternal the supreme evil, and that to obtain the one and escape the other we must live rightly."
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If You Can Articulate, You’re All Set: Russell, Yeats, Gaddis
"The things I want are not in any country, nor in any job." —William Gaddis
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Everything You Know About Audience-Building is Wrong
And what you should do instead.
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War as the Truest Form of Divination: On Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
Meet the 7-foot albino who says you should petition directly the chambers of the historical absolute.
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"Ask for the Truth:" The Medium and the Light by Marshall McLuhan
What the media won't tell you about the famous media theorist.
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René Girard's Anthropology of the Cross
Can social science vindicate religion, or should we respect the Cartesian Bargain instituted 400 years ago?
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