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Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
With each new adherent I am crossing the line from unclubbable fruitcake to tolerated eccentric.
Gary Shteyngart • Little Failure: A Memoir
Sarah’s Tips & Tricks
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
THE PEOPLE QUESTION
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Our social skills are currently inadequate to the pluralistic societies we are living in.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
civility, trust, and a collective sense of purpose seem absent.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Optimistic attempts to promote what is Clearly Right will be presented as a pursuit of the common good, but Scruton believes that the attitude underlying them is always “I”-based: it’s for the good of me and people whose views are generally indistinguishable from mine. To this “I” attitude Scruton contrasts the “we” attitude—not the most felicitous
... See moreAlan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
The secular argument for human freedom, launched almost three centuries ago under the rubric of “natural rights,” has often been reduced to a calculation of probabilities: democracy and the personal freedoms it protects are good not because they have an inherent moral superiority over other forms of organizing society, but because they are the leas
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