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What we’re missing in Machiavelli’s The Prince, explained by an expert. There are very few philosophers who become part of ...
The cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s age-related decline is as much a media scandal as a political one. An ...
These Malcolm X quotes on liberation, education, and community will inspire you to think about how you can help build a more ...
In 2015, right-wing intellectual Charles Murray wrote a book laying the groundwork for DOGE’s reign of terror.
A new book attempting to document the tragic final chapter of Joe Biden’s presidency has sparked fresh reflection on his ...
When I first heard about this AI-annotated book service, I was skeptical. But it's actually one of the most responsible and ...
Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion will shock anyone who knows Twain only through his writing, in which the ...
Back in 2016, Schmitt’s work was coming again into the public eye, thanks in large part to the influential Harvard Law ...
It’s true that Biden’s team hid his decline from the public. But the public had long known that he wasn’t fit to serve ...
Perhaps the most famous Jewish dispute before the rise of modern denominations took place in Babylonia around 760-770 CE.
It includes artists who seem to have gone through a religious phase, one that left a mark on them, such as Toni Morrison, ...
A review of 'Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5," Raoul Peck's documentary about the writing of 1984 and how Orwell's ideas apply to Trump and modern fascism.