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March 1, 2021

Victorian novelist writes first draft of The Matrix

Samuel Butler’s Erewhon is an excuse for the author to climb inside of an interesting idea and walk around a bit. He has a…

January 26, 2021

The secret of wealth accumulation. (I said of, not to.)

I spent about six months reading The Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorstein Veblen, and it occupied my brain throughout. I can’t think…

January 21, 2021

Russian master probably drunk at the time

I expected more from Dostoyevsky. I included Crime and Punishment on my list with high expectations that it was money in the bank. I’d…

December 29, 2020

Revenge is a dish best served lavishly

I packed my list with a good bit of nineteenth-century pop fiction, and I did this partly to have some light reading to balance out…

December 9, 2020

Scientist cracks the code for success in life!

Darwin’s On The Origin of Species knocked me on my ass. I’d studied the concepts in school along with everyone else, and the idea…

November 20, 2020

Historical account of history repeating itself

Livy’s Early History of Rome offers a great overview of Roman history from the founding story of Romulus straight through to the end of…

October 29, 2020

Political phosopher figures out how to keep his stuff

The Social Contract is Rousseau’s attempt to resolve the question of how one might submit to the will of the state while remaining a free…

October 15, 2020

Old fool mistaken for genius by western civilization

I was surprised to discover that Aristotle was an idiot. I curated my list hoping to stock it with the good stuff, and I…

October 12, 2020

Grouchy old coot tells you how to live your life

I spent the better part of six months reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau. I think it took so long because every time I picked it…

October 8, 2020

Leading stoic surprisingly not the life of the party

Marcus Aurelius repeats himself. He doesn’t use the same words, but he circles the same handful of ideas over and over. His Meditations contains twelve books,…

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