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The Progressive Case for American Power
Reviewing Shadi Hamid's new book, The Case for American Power.
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Ok, Boomer
Before Helen Andrews came for the ladies, she came for the boomers.
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Reading the Mind of the Mind Reader
A review of Steven Pinker's upcoming When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows....
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A Mysterious and Deadly Inheritance
Joselin Linder's moving medical memoir, The Family Gene, reminds us that research findings should be shared faster and that many important yet simple…
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A New Entry in Post-9/11 Literature
A review of Glass Century by Ross Barkan, a new Millennial novel about the transparent fragility and resilience of America and Americans.
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A Steady-State of Discontent
Some brief thoughts on Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra (2017)
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Revitalizing James Burnham
Interview with a scholar of Burnham, David T. Byrne, along with a brief review of Byrne's new comprehensive intellectual biography.
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How I Won a Nobel Prize
Just kidding, this is a book review. I haven't actually won the Nobel Prize, silly. [Contains Spoilers]
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The Public Intellectual Paradox
A brief look at the tensions facing public intellectuals in the Information Age. Our subject: Yuval Noah Harari and his latest book, Nexus.
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The Evolution of Fatherhood
In her new book, Sarah Hrdy's explores the natural history of paternal care, describing the underlying behavioral endocrinology and speculating on its…
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All Bayes Everything
Subjective beliefs can offer a path to decreasing prediction error. This is the power of Bayes' Theorem. Plus, our flawed brains may be natural Bayesian…
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A Brief Genetic History of Europe
A tour of highlights from A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe by Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe.
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