“Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand – a review
Few novels inspire as much fervent devotion, or outright disdain, as Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s sprawling, polemical ode to individualism and unrestrained capitalism. Published in 1957, this…
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The Black Hole of Social Media: How We Got Sucked In and Forgot the Way Out
There is a moment, perhaps, that’s familiar to most of us now: you pick up your phone to check a message or glance at the weather, and…
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Simone Weil’s “The Need for Roots” – in her own words?
The destruction of roots is the deepest affliction of the modern soul. The uprooted man is deprived not only of material sustenance but of the vital nourishment…
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A Master Class in Macroeconomics Disguised as a Warning
In How Countries Go Broke, Ray Dalio does what he has always done best: distill the complexities of global finance into a coherent, almost narrative logic. Dalio,…
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The Century-Long Prisoner’s Dilemma That Now Threatens Us All
For the last hundred years, humanity has been caught in a slow-motion game of the prisoner’s dilemma; and the stakes have never been higher. First formalized in…
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Is There Meaning in Milk
There was a time when a man knew the name of the cow that gave him his milk. He knew the row where his tomatoes grew. He…
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The Landfill Economy and the Death of Meaning
We live in a time of abundance, or so we’re told. Never in human history have so many goods been so widely available, so cheaply produced, and…
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“Debt: The First 5,000 Years” by David Graeber – a review
In Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the late anthropologist David Graeber mounts an audacious and deeply researched challenge to one of the most fundamental assumptions of modern…
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In a Future Filled with Doubt, What Does It Mean to Be Human?: a book review
Neon Future, the brainchild of entrepreneur and self-proclaimed futurist Tom Bilyeu, isn’t so much a graphic novel as it is a manifesto in comic-book form. A manifesto…
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Saving Those Who Refuse to Swim
There comes a point when generosity begins to feel like self-harm. When the instinct to give, to lift, to offer, to patch the wounds of a society…