The Republic by Plato — The Book I Carry on My Skin
Plato did not write The Republic as a philosophy textbook. He wrote it as a…
God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin — The Anarchist Who Was Right About Everything Except How to Fix It
Bakunin never finished this book. He died in 1876 with the manuscript still in fragments,…
Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes — A Review
Most people know Charles Darwin the way they know a monument: imposing, fixed, slightly remote….
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death by Albert Camus: The Weight of Being Alive
Few books ask more of a reader than one assembled from the political writings of…
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus — On Absurdity, Revolt, and the Strange Dignity of Being Alive
Camus opens The Myth of Sisyphus with what is still one of the most arresting…
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey — What It Costs to Give Your Life to Something That Can’t Love You Back
A review of Dian Fossey’s Gorillas in the Mist — the book behind the obsession, the science, the violence, and what it means to give your life to something that can’t love you back.
