God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens — What the Man Left Behind When He Left
Hitchens died in December 2011. Esophageal cancer. He knew it was coming and he said…
Peter’s Reading List: 50 Books That Built a Diner Owner, a Craftsman, and a Philosopher
Every library is an autobiography. Not the polished kind — the real kind, with the…
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche: God Is Dead, and Heavy Metal Has Known It Longest
Friedrich Nietzsche published Die fröhliche Wissenschaft — The Gay Science — in 1882, and then…
Brooklyn Skinhead by Lou Morales — Boots, Brotherhood, and the God He Found After
Sunset Park in the late 1980s did not produce philosophers. It produced survivors. The blocks…
A Kierkegaard Anthology, Edited by Robert Bretall: The Thinker Who Refused to Let Me Go
Reading Kierkegaard as someone who arrived through Nietzsche is, to put it plainly, disorienting. It…
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill: The Book That Almost Made Me Abandon Nietzsche
Utilitarianism was first published in 1863. On Liberty came four years earlier, in 1859. Together…
