Another book that tried to explain why everything feels wrong now-a-days.
read more The Revolt of the Public: And The Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium – Martin Gurri
Good sci-fi is hard to pull off, and as the technology improves, it is getting increasingly harder.
Oh look, I actually liked one
Try as I might, horror just doesn’t work for me.
People always talk about the great American Novel. But what about the Great American Epic Poem?
Intelligence is communal. I asked around, and apparently this makes sense.
read more The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone – Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach
Without it being a comment on the book itself, I have no idea why I read this.
There are some things I don’t want to discuss with my students. Here’s one.
This Warhammer book handles a a common sci-fi trope really poorly. But who cares?
Failures in Polymathy 