War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy — What the Book Is Really Asking You to Give Up
Most novels ask you to give up a few hours. War and Peace asks you…
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas — A Review
Lewis Thomas | Viking Press, 1974 | 153 pages Every boundary you trust is a…
Discourses Concerning Government by Algernon Sidney: The Philosopher America Forgot to Remember
Every schoolchild learns Locke. They learn Montesquieu. They learn Jefferson, who borrowed from both. What…
The City of God by Augustine: Plato’s Shadow and the God Who Stepped Outside It
Few books in Western history have been composed under the pressure of genuine civilizational terror….
The Lenin Anthology, Edited by Robert C. Tucker — A Review
Eight hundred and thirty-two pages distilled from over fifty volumes of a dead man’s writing…
The Satanic Witch by Anton LaVey — Seduction as a Discipline, Not a Gift
Forget the sulfur. Forget the black candles and the inverted pentagram. Strip away every piece…
