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…
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,…
The Old Régime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville — The Revolution That Already Happened
Revolutions don’t begin with the first shot. They begin long before anyone picks up a…
