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The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to It
“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.”
November 9, 1928: The Trial of Radclyffe Hall and Virginia Woolf’s Exquisite Case for the Freedom of Speech
“Writers produce literature, and they cannot produce great literature until they have free minds. The free mind has access to all knowledge and speculation of its age, and nothing cramps it like a taboo.”
Mapping the Heavens: How Cosmology Shaped Our Understanding of the Universe and the Strange Story of How the Term “Black Hole” Was Born
From Calcutta’s most macabre prison to the ivory towers of Cambridge, by way of ancient mythology and Einstein.
How Leo Tolstoy Found His Purpose: The Beloved Author on Personal Growth and the Meaning of Human Existence
“That which one has set oneself to do, one should not relinquish on the grounds of absence of mind or distraction.”
Between the World and Us: Hannah Arendt on Outsiderdom, the Power and Privilege of Being a Pariah, and How We Humanize Each Other
“We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human.”
A Voyage in the Clouds: The Heartening Illustrated Story of the First International Flight in 1785
How a Frenchman, an Englishman, a French bulldog named Henri, and an English bulldog named Henry overcame their differences to conquer the skies.
10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings
Fluid reflections on keeping a solid center.
Leo Tolstoy, Shortly Before His Death, on Love, Reason, Human Nature, and What Gives Meaning to Our Lives
“Reason and love define the demands of human nature… The demands of reason and love must not be subordinated to the demands of habit.”
James Baldwin on Freedom and How We Imprison Ourselves
“We made the world we’re living in and we have to make it over.”
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