A short summary of the most remarkable economics book I've read this year, Gregory Clark's The Son Also Rises (2014)
"Life eternal is the supreme good, death eternal the supreme evil, and that to obtain the one and escape the other we must live rightly."
"The things I want are not in any country, nor in any job." —William Gaddis
And what you should do instead.
Meet the 7-foot albino who says you should petition directly the chambers of the historical absolute.
What the media won't tell you about the famous media theorist.
Can social science vindicate religion, or should we respect the Cartesian Bargain instituted 400 years ago?
“I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.”
"If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good." —Ezra Pound
On the Pursuit of Artistic Excellence
"It all starts for you with a casual channel-hopper question: What's happening on the other side?"
"The most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing."
