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…
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin — A Beautiful Blueprint That Keeps Running Into Human Nature
A critical review of Kropotkin’s The Conquest of Bread — what anarcho-communism gets right about wealth and labor, and why it keeps hitting the same structural wall.
An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method by Morris R. Cohen & Ernest Nagel — A Review
An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method — Morris R. Cohen & Ernest Nagel |…
Utopia by Thomas More: Read in One Sitting, Carried for a Lifetime
Every book I have ever loved has done something specific to time. Not suspended it,…
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre — The Play That Diagnosed Modern Life Before Modern Life Knew It Was Sick
Most plays ask you to watch. No Exit makes you confess. You sit there in…
Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socrates — Conviction, Hemlock, and the Price of the Examined Life
Painted in 1787, two years before the guillotine became the symbol of French revolutionary justice,…
