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Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse by Luke Kemp
Published in 2025.
This is a terrific book—five stars or whatever other metric one might use. And why this hype? This book not only provided a wealth of new information (especially about early humanity), but it also altered my worldview. I...
Quotes: 16 September 2026
The Myth of Disenchantment
Jason A. Josephson-Storm
Disenchantment is a myth. The majority of people in the heartland of disenchantment believe in magic or spirits today, and it appears that they did so at the high point of modernity. Edu...
Quotes: 15 September 2026
Age of Anger
Pankaj Mishra
In his own time, Nietzsche witnessed only some ‘active’ and ‘complete’ nihilists from a backward country who appeared to be destroying the old order and its feeble-minded morality rather than preserving it. Alth...
Quotes: 13 September 2026
Shutdown
Adam Tooze
A discussion of the climate crisis—the historical transformation of nature and its implications for our history—written from the safety of an Upper West Side apartment could seem remote. The Anthropocene remained an ab...
Quotes: 12 September 2026
Anger, Fear, Domination
William A. Galston
In sum, those who wish to strengthen the ability of liberal democracies to resist illiberal and anti-democratic assaults must begin by shedding their illusions and embracing a rigorous realism ab...
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I’m a retired attorney & counselor. I received my eduction from the U of Iowa. I’m an Iowa native. My wife & I lived in India, China, and Romania between 2012 & 2018.
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