Taleb prefers personal responsibility over technocratic regulation and contends you shouldn’t put someone else’s skin in the game without putting your own in as well.
If there are “Nietzschean” elements in Shakespeare’s Roman plays, is it safe to assume the Bard influenced the philosopher?
Historian Emily Jones’s new book explores how a “Burkean” conservatism upholding tradition, an organic conception of society, and the need to defend religion and property emerged.
Two wise veterans of the political scene bring their compelling sensibilities to the task of meditating on the American conservative movement.
Two new books speak to both pro-Trump and NeverTrump conservatives, using the career of Ronald Reagan as a lens for understanding the present condition.
In Lady Bird, an Oscar-nominated sleeper hit, writer-director Greta Gerwig offers a different kind of realism—not grit, but “gratitude for reality.”
The creator of master spy George Smiley has been accused of everything from anti-Americanism to anti-Semitism. Yet his tales of international intrigue and betrayal remain astoundingly popular. Is there a key to le Carré success?
Two new books of poetry tell the story of our life as both a journey and a cycle through which we move, in order to return, somewhat changed yet somewhat the same, to the place from which we started.
In this modern adaptation, Shakespeare’s Lear is now a billionaire media mogul: the king of money and information who controls boardrooms and newspapers. Is something lost in that translation?
Mark Lilla believes we are suffering from an extreme individualism that is breaking the nation apart. His prescription? Equal citizenship.
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