Books

“Since the invention of the cuneiform system of writing in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE and of hieroglyphics in Egypt around 3150 BCE, the serious reader of texts has enjoyed cultural acclamation,” writes Frank Furedi in Aeon.”In Roman times, starting in the second century BCE, books […]

Anthony Kronman’s upcoming book, Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan, looks to be an important subject for our times. David Brooks recently wrote about the important tome in his most recent column: The Beauty of Big Books. In his column, Brooks notes the former Yale Law […]

As if you needed a reason to read a book, a recent study might give you one more. If you want to live longer, read. Check out this story on Smithsonian magazine’s site: “A new study in the journal Social Science and Medicine suggests that […]

I’m looking forward to reading Sean Carroll’s new book: The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself. My copy arrived today. It sounds like a book full of big ideas that crosses many intellectual disciplines. Listen to the author speak […]

Epictetus was a Stoic Greek philosopher who lived from AD 55-135. His belief was basically that all external events are determined by fate; there’s nothing we can do to control what happens to us. Nevertheless, we are responsible for how we react, which we can […]