Trusty Companions

 Wally Bock on the importance of the sidekick.

Study the Missing

 

An often overlooked part of any management review is noticing what was not done and what is not present.

Hard to spot, right? Omissions can be silent and, of course, invisible. But the more you train yourself to look for what is missing, what was unsaid, which subjects were shunted into a far corner, the easier it gets.

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Free Speech and Due Process at Princeton

 Law professor Robert P. George on the troubling case of Joshua Katz.

Great Soundtracks: A Series

 

"Mary, Queen of Scots"

Loathing Among the Elite

 Law & Liberty: Theodore Dalrymple on the oikophobic will to power.

The New Justice

 The swearing in of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The biographies of the members.

The Modern Struggle

 

A Large Regular has Naval Ravikant's succinct take on what's happening out there.

We Have Been Warned

I hope this book doesn't come across as fueled by anger, but I don't want to deny my anger either. The tech companies are destroying something precious, which is the possibility of contemplation. They have created a world in which we're constantly watched and always distracted. Through their accumulation of data, they have constructed a portrait of our minds, which they use to invisibly guide mass behavior (and increasingly individual behavior) to further their financial interests. They have eroded the integrity of institutions - media, publishing - that supply the intellectual material that provokes thought and guides democracy. Their most precious asset is our own precious asset, our attention, and they have abused it.

- Franklin Foer in World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

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Find Your Style

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Excerpt

 A lie always begins with denial.

Something has happened - yet you do not want to admit that it has.

That is how a lie begins.

- From The Emperor of Lies: A novel by Steve Sem-Sandberg