During the twentieth century, an estimated 25 million people died under Soviet rule. Under Communist Chinese rule, the death toll was even higher&mdas...
Nov 9, 2020
Stéphane Courtois, Jean-Louis Panné, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartošek, Jean-Louis Margolin, Nicolas Werth
Nietzsche looks at society’s assumptions about good, bad, and evil, and asserts that our morality is ill and life-rejecting: more anemic than au...
Nov 6, 2020
Friedrich Nietzsche
What are insights and how do they occur? Why do we need them and what keeps us from encountering more of them in our daily lives? After years of inves...
Gary Klein
In a world that seems fast-paced, we have lost the art of serenity, of being still. We hunt the next high, we chase the next craze, accrue more things...
Nov 4, 2020
Haemin Sunim
This book began as a series of in-depth interviews that New York Times reporter John Leland conducted called “85 and Up.” The book’s...
Nov 3, 2020
John Leland
Oftentimes the portrayal of historic events casts key figures as static chess-pieces engaged in a series of battles, negotiations, and strategies. Whi...
Erik Larson
Amidst the hysteria of a global pandemic, biblical scholar and research fellow N.T. Wright reflects upon the Covid-19 moment and shows us the pattern ...
Nov 2, 2020
N. T. Wright
Political science professor Robert Reich makes a case for America recentering its politics, economics, and culture on the concept of the common good. ...
Oct 29, 2020
Robert Reich
Social media posts, news headlines, political protests—racial tension dominates these forms of public discourse. While the Civil Rights Era spok...
Oct 23, 2020
Shelby Steele
Journalist Florence Williams looks at the scientific research about the innumerable benefits that time outdoors brings us....
Oct 21, 2020
Florence Williams
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