Old Books, New Times
Weekly essays reviewing old books and exploring how they can help us understand our current time.
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Too Oppressive a Job
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal. 1976. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim, 1990.
In 1968, members of the Warsaw Pact invaded their fellow member Czechoslovakia. In the aftermath, the Czech author Bohumil Hr...
Lord Brocktree, Lethality, and Restraint
Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques. 2000
Defense, or War as called by this administration, Secretary Pete Hegseth has spent much of his tenure as secretary touting the need to revive the “warrior ethos” with a “focus on lethalit...
Snow Crash Out
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. 1992.
It’s weird to think that there are so many well-known billionaires and so few public monuments of their wealth. Names like Musk, Gates, Thiel, Ballmer, Andreesen, and Bezos, along with oth...
Octopus Games
By George Frederick Keller - The Wasp, August 19, 1882, vol. 9. No. 316, pp. 520-521. Image taken from http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/power/text1/octopusimages.pdf, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?cu...
Scrolling Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman. 1985.
In P.O.S.’s 2006 song “Safety in Speed (Heavy Metal),” Craig Finn recalls watching Predator in theaters. Among his disappointment...
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