Earlier this week, Al Jazeera reported that police forces in Benghazi, Libya had collected and burned several thousand books, which, police claimed, promoted violence and propagated the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood… Read more »

Socialist Survivalism: A Democracy Beyond Democracy This is Part III in a four-part series; don’t miss: Part I: Three Fateful Ironies of Democracy Part II: Beneath the Volcano III. Cult… Read more »

Taking a break from the World Cup, John Dugdale at The Guardian turned his attention to Wimbledon, and the reading habits of top players: Wimbledon begins this week, and the… 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 »

Forget Nate Silver, Devavrat Shah has got our number: the MIT associate professor has developed an algorithm which he claims can predict with 95% accuracy what topics will be trending… Read more »