The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker is about the nature of the human mind. Throughout history, there have been many different conceptualizations about the human mind, and these have had real consequences of politics, law, ethics, relationships, and religion. …

The Next Decade is a book about geopolitics by George Friedman, author of The Next 100 Years. Overview Most people think that the longer the time frame, the more unpredictable the future. I take the opposite view. Individual actions are the hardest thing to predict. …

In , Gigerenzer makes the contrarian case that the world doesn’t need more experts, more number crunching, more big data, but rather, a better education about the nature of risk. He contrasts risk with uncertainty. Risk is associated with controlled environments with fixed rules, such as casinos. These are places…

If you know the world, you will know yourself. If you know yourself, you will know the world. Which one is true? In other words, basic human instincts tell us about how societies will behave, or social relations and events tells us about the nature of the individual person? It…

Perspectives on Our Age is a reflection by Jacques Ellul on his life and work. If we wish to research the properties of water, we know better than to study only the properties of its basic components. The properties of water cannot be deduced from those of oxygen and hydrogen…

In a Munk debate, a few famous authors debated whether the world was getting better or worse. This took place pre-pandemic, in 2015. One of the speakers was Malcolm Gladwell and at some during the conversation, he had this to say: So if you talk to epidemiologists they will talk…

Written by Armand M. Nicholi, The Question of Go d reads like a dialogue taking place between the atheist founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and the renown Christian apologetic and former atheist, C.S. Lewis. …

Howard Stern described John E. Sarno as a living saint. Stern suffered from intense back pain from years, and the only man who was able to cure him was Sarno. Other celebrities and even a U.S. politician lauded his genius. So what did he discover that was so profound? …

Wanting by Luke Burgis is about mimetic desire. Burgis was an entrepreneur who was on course to living out the Silicon Valley myth, before he experienced a change of heart. He realized that his desire to be an entrepreneur was highly influenced by the people around him, and that his…