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Jacob’s 2025 Year in Books
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Reflection on an Anecdote about Goethe and Hoelderlin
The Friendenthal biography of Goethe relates the following anecdote about one of the few occasions on which Goethe met Hoelderlin: It was at some minor social event, and Hoelderlin approached Goethe to challenge him about something to do with the public. Goethe notoriously was, at various times, indifferent or apathetic or cynical about the needs, wants, thoughts and capabilities of the public peo
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| Case Closed is an attempt to refute all conspiracies about the assassination of Kennedy. While the book frequently pauses to discuss & critique various popular theories, Gerald Posner focuses on expounding the official narrative (that is, the finding ...more | |
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The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865:
"Fairly impressive in the larger picture- one which is lost on the reader for much of the book since it largely makes its case in the first third, and from the royal governor on appears to skip around and cherrypick illustrative examples of how Boston"
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| This book implies that it is a serious challenge to the Hayek-Mises critique of socialism that large-scale planning is impossible, but is mostly confined to a hasty summary of Walmart's supply chain, Amazon's delivery routing algorithm, and academic ...more | |
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| not awful for intermediate german reading, but most of the texts included are pretty bad. feels like the sort of highly didactic, unsubtle texts you'd be assigned in a public school. it's interesting, at least, as an illustration of the proto-Woke 'p ...more | |
“All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.”
― The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
― The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
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