Book Review: The Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch
Why shouldn’t I review a book written 2,000 years ago? I can’t say reading Plutarch for the first time gave me a definitive roadmap for how a
Why shouldn’t I review a book written 2,000 years ago? I can’t say reading Plutarch for the first time gave me a definitive roadmap for how a
I read with great interest this long piece by Matt Novak on the back-story of Napoleon Hill, a man who gets credit as the father of
Just some light reading in the final weekend before the US Presidential election. I checked Rome In The Late Republic by Mary Beard and Michael Crawford
Ta-Nahesi Coates wrote Between The World And Me as a personal intellectual and political history, and guide for his son, for thinking about race in the United
Luca Pesaro’s Zero Alternative is a Dan Brown-style thriller, with a ruthless conspiracy of high-financiers chasing an ultra-effective prediction algorithm, a foreign-legion enforcer with a
I’m always on the lookout for people who can hold diametrically opposed views in their head simultaneously. Is that why I enjoy Claire Danes in

I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to score points over next year’s budget – it is a weakness of our civil society. For reals. It’s also really fun for me.
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