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…

6 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 years ago