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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Hoping Against Facts: Belief in Progress

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  The end of the Cold War seemed, for a brief moment, to vindicate the modern belief in progress. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, ...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

War! What Is It Good For? by Ian Morris

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War! What Is It Good For? by Ian Morris is alone among thousands of books on war written in recent decades—not because it celebrates or ju...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Review: Organic Nomenclature and the Discipline of Naming

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  There are few books more practical—or more quietly transformative—than Organic Nomenclature by James G. Traynham . It is not a glamorous ...
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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Hannah Arendt and the Illusion of Progress

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"On Violence" is one of the essays in the book Crises of the Republic  by Hannah Arendt   In her essay On Violence , Hannah Arendt...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Reading Moby-Dick After a (Late) Life at Sea (Mostly in Books)

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Few novels have the global reputation of Moby Dick . Readers around the world consider it a monument of American literature —a small ship ci...
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Friday, March 13, 2026

Geography, War, and Power: Ian Morris’s Grand Argument

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  Across Why the West Rules, for Now, War! What Is It Good For? , and Geography Is Destiny , historian Ian Morris advances one of the most...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

"Until August" by Gabriel García Márquez: A Review

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  Gabriel García Márquez ’s Until August ( En agosto nos vemos ), published more than a decade after his death, is a slender, lovely final ...