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What does it mean to have self-respect?

On Friendship, Conversation, Women, and Dying a Good Death by the Father of the Essay

Art is Dead (again); or, The coward within Art is momentarily resurrected, then dies one of its ten thousand deaths...

Essay Notes: "Is the Russian Revolution a Bourgeois Revolution? A Keen Analysis of the Situation in Soviet Russia" by Karl Radek

Conquering the Universe One Peace at a Time, or: Pursuing the Cultured, Prosperous, Stoic Life

Defending the Enlightenment with the Knowledge Illusion: Or, Why our desire for parsimony ensures we know diddly

George Saunders On Writing: Author of New York Times best seller tells all

Derrida versus the rationalists, and why I might be more postmodern than I thought

Bertrand Russell's "In Praise of Idleness": Amate dolce far niente? (Do you love doing nothing?), and why you find it hard to do

Essay Notes: "Regulation and Time: Temporal patterns in regulatory development" by Joshua Newman and Michael Howlett

Essay Notes: "Clouds, Clocks, and the Study of Politics" by Gabriel Almond and Stephen Genco