PinnedMoney versus Culture from Martin Amis to Thomas Tuchel“In shorthand, money is the opposite of culture.”Nov 1Nov 1
Democrats need a 50-state strategy or face death from Microwave-ismDemocrats risk collapse without a 50-state strategy: unify voters, address inequality, and combat political apathy to secure elections.Nov 29Nov 29
Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima: ReviewThis short memoir is a little door into the world of Japanese ultra-nationalism, the cult of the warrior and the inability of words to…Nov 28Nov 28
Julia, Sandra Newman: ReviewChristopher Hitchens once said that George Orwell mattered because he correctly identified and was against the three great forces of his…Oct 8Oct 8
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman: ReviewEverything that we are taught and everything that we know about how humans behave revolves around the idea that we are rational and…Sep 27Sep 27
The Little Drummer Girl, John le Carré: ReviewThis story was written in and set in 1982, just before the Israeli-Lebanese war of the same year. In it, a Palestinian bomb maker goes to…Sep 171Sep 171
Nottingham Forest, the End of History and the Last FanWe are entering football’s end state — what happens on the pitch is less important than what happens off it.Apr 261Apr 261
Adam Curtis’ Scared Old WorldWe are an emotional and manipulated mess. It is Aldous Huxley’s medicated, euphoric and unfree world; if only it was new and brave.Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists — A Review from 2020An Edwardian version of HBO’s ‘The Wire’, the book is a slow safari through a system defined by absurd injustice.Jul 8, 2020Jul 8, 2020
