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Power: A New Social Analysis (1938) by Bertrand Russell Review

Bertrand Russell’s Power: A New Social Analysis argues that the fundamental concept in social science is power—not wealth, not sex, … Read more

Did Bertrand Russell already win the argument you had with a relative at dinner last month, nearly ninety years before … Read more

Do you wake up feeling like success is an exhausting treadmill that leads nowhere? The Conquest of Happiness will show … Read more

Why does a book Bertrand Russell wrote in about twelve weeks, for a shilling, for readers he described as ordinary … Read more

Do you know what it takes to mathematically prove that 1 + 1 equals 2? Not just accept it as … Read more

Ever wonder why a book written nearly a century ago about a man’s personal struggles with truth and self-control continues … Read more

Have you ever wondered why a 14th-century Italian poem about heaven, hell, and purgatory still sits on bestseller lists and … Read more

Paradise by Dante is where The Divine Comedy reaches its summit. It is the third and final canticle, in which … Read more

Ever wondered why everyone quotes Inferno but nobody finishes Purgatorio? The forgotten middle child of Dante’s trilogy might actually be … Read more

Why does a poem written seven centuries ago read like an indictment against people whose names you would still recognize … Read more

Did you know that one of the most powerful performances of the 1980s was delivered without a single ounce of … Read more

Why does a 2,800 year old poem about a man rowing home to his wife still feel like the most … Read more

Why does the man voted “Citizen of the Year” turn out, years later, to have raped and strangled thirty-three young … Read more

Did you ever make a promise you knew you couldn’t keep? Now imagine that promise—about land, about justice, about decency—hangs … Read more

Did you ever wonder what it truly feels like to lose the love of your life one month before your … Read more

Why does it feel like every open wound in American life right now, the fentanyl showing up in a counterfeit … Read more

Did you ever wonder what the dead would say if they could speak? Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker Prize-winning novel answers that … Read more

Does your life look right on paper and still feel wrong underneath? Did you do everything you were supposed to … Read more

Did you know that the end of the world doesn’t arrive with a bang for everyone at once? As Paul … Read more

Ever find yourself staring at a colleague’s promotion or a neighbor’s new Porsche, wondering what they have that you don’t? … Read more

Does protecting yourself from every shock actually make you weaker? Reading Antifragile convinced me that comfort is not the same … Read more