Author: Don
On Chernow’s Grant
I recently read Chernow’s Grant. It is magnificent, and continues the important work of refuting the denigration of Grant and Reconstruction by racist Twentieth Century historians of the Dunning School […]
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Nick Carr on the Problem with Social Media
Nick Carr, author of The Shallows, reviews Siva Vaidhyanathan’s Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy and Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right […]
The World According to Twitter
I’ve written recently about what I consider to be an emerging consensus, or if not quite rising to the status of consensus, a recognition that we have not reckoned with […]
Tales from the Crypt: the Original Machiavelli Pages from 2002
The very origin of the Machiavelli graphic novel started out in a competition for the SPX 2002 anthology. The theme was historical biography, so I was primed and ready to […]
Stoicism and Managing Social Media
It is not the things themselves that disturb us, but our judgments about these things” —Epictetus, Encheiridion, 1.5 Both Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus agree that people’s anguish is caused by […]
Is Sharing Bad?
We often tend to describe social media as if it were the weather: that the torrent of outrage, trolling, and negativity is just a thing that happens in these ecosystems, […]
Machiavelli Recommended Reading
Here’s a bit of a select bibliography for Machiavelli. I’ve tried to keep it short, to only the books that I used the most or had the most impact on […]
Thoughts on Strauss
While looking through my backups from my old Movable Type website, seeing if there was anything worth salvaging, I came across this post written in 2004 about Strauss’ book Thoughts […]