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âIn a perfect world, intellectuals would be original, logical, funny and full of common sense. That is, they would be like John Careyâ
The notebooks of Camus offer an impressive array of aphorisms: "Withdraw completely and run your own race"; "Never talk about your work"
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Review of Rana Dasguptaâs âAfter Nationsâ
Three weeks ago, the European Commission fined Elon Muskâs X âŹ120 million for alleged violations of their Digital Services Act.
It's bad to be stupid and evil
Assessing how a strategy of avoiding the top-performing sector would have done
How to think about risk in the stock market. The post The Biggest Risk in 2026 appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse mu
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With nothing but a new cut of Kill Bill to offer, Quentin Tarantino has gone into semiretirement right as American cinema is fighting for its very life. And to make matters worse, he wonât stop talkin
The worldâs biggest economy is exploiting its export prowess to cover for its domestic failures
Sholay is a movie about friendship, romance, and high adventure.
Good books offer new arguments, while excellent books pose new questions. Alyssa Battistoniâs Free Gifts, on the unfinished commodification of nature and care, is an excellent book. In a world of ever
Will the US follow in recognizing Somaliland?
by Ken MacVey Donald Trump has creatively explored ways to monetize the presidency. These include launching the $TRUMP crypto business a few days before resuming office on January 20, 2025 or using Tr
Why was the revolutionary road out of capitalism abandoned for an evolutionary one? In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber explores how socialist parties moved from revolution to reform, but why
The Anchorage "Framework"; Storm/Shadow Scalps show the importance of Taurus/Tomahawks
by Priya Malhotra Cruelty, at least the old-fashioned kind, has a shape. It announces itself. It arrives with words you can quote later, replay, contest, reject. Even when it stings, it offers a surfa
The challenges Chicagoâs progressive mayor, Brandon Johnson, has faced demonstrate that Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York will have to out-organize whatâs soon to be a mighty opposition to his every mo
Robert Ito in The New York Times: Park Chan-wook is one of Asiaâs most famous directors, an auteur beloved as much for his complex, often critical visions of his home country of South Korea as for sce
Sebastian Smee in The Washington Post: Kerry James Marshall is contemporary artâs great engine tinkerer. He wants to know how things work. In the 1990s, when his contemporaries were making slight, cer
The public has apparently consistently disliked modernist artistic styles in many areas, including architecture:
Is our society slowly putting itself back together?
From three years ago: 2022-10-27. Did I get this right back then...
Issue #83: Sometimes What is Remembered Most is What is Most Dynamically Changing
No publicity, no marketing â how did a 70 year oldâs debut novel start selling 1,000 copies a day?
In the late 1500s, Europeans started their era not as a pale imitation of classical greatness but as sparking a culture of growth
Affairs, authors using AI, and parties â both good and bad. Book industry insiders dish on the literary world of 2025
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CĂŠsar Morales Oyarvide in Phenomenal World: In his famous 1918 essay âThe Crisis of the Tax State,â Joseph Schumpeter captured the essence of fiscal sociology, arguing that âThe spirit of a people, it
James Wolcott in Sidecar: 2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Patti Smithâs debut album Horses, with Robert Mapplethorpeâs black and white cover portrait of the artist posed with her jacket slung o
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