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  Earlier this week a certain Seattle company acquired what may well become a very important piece of the future ebook market: a patent that enables digital “lending.” Geekwire explains… Read more »

Conspiracy theories are predictable. I don’t just mean the guilty parties in actual conspiracies. Those are often pretty predictable, too, it’s true. No, I mean the language of conspiracy theory is… Read more »

In a provocative article for Forbes, Igor Greenwald ponders Amazon’s high, high stock price—and predicts a big crash. He begins by asking what it is that keeps share prices so high. Amazon, Greenwald… Read more »

Via Open Culture, here’s a recording of Walter Kaufmann delivering a lecture at Princeton titled “Nietzsche and the Crisis in Philosophy” in 1960. Kaufmann, a renowned scholar who championed Friedrich… Read more »