Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy by Manuel DeLanda — What Plato Got Wrong and Why It Still Matters
Plato wanted the world to be clean. Fixed types. Eternal forms sitting outside time and…
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky — The First Man Who Refused to Get Better
Dostoevsky wrote this in 1864. The Underground Man has been living rent-free in my head…
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West: The Myth of Saving Anyone
Nathanael West wrote Miss Lonelyhearts in 1933. It is 185 pages. It feels like a…
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow — The Immigrant Who Built the Machine the Rest of Us Live Inside
A review of Ron Chernow’s landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton — the illegitimate Caribbean orphan who out-hustled every Founding Father and built the America we actually live in.
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes — The First Man Honest Enough to Say What Power Really Is
Most philosophers dress up power. They give it noble clothes — natural law, divine right,…
Grassland by Richard Manning — What We Buried Under the Breadbasket
A review of Richard Manning’s Grassland — the story of North America’s vanishing prairies, what we destroyed to build industrial agriculture, and why it matters now.
