literature

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

“The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something…

7 years ago

Book Review: Niall Ferguson’s Civilization – Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

In much the same way Marxists internationalists held on to the belief that the workers’ revolution would sweep the world…

9 years ago

Piketty’s Capital: A Problem Analysed In-Depth but not Solved

When a book on economics cites Honoré de Balzac and Jane Austen to provide evidence, one cannot fail to take…

10 years ago

In Search of Lost Time

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.” A novel in seven volumes with a total…

10 years ago

If This Is Man / The Truce

“A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man…

10 years ago

The Pursuit of Love

“Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they…

10 years ago

The Good Soldier Švejk

“And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans…

10 years ago

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good…

10 years ago

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of…

10 years ago

The Compleat Angler

“Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any, 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis…

10 years ago