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Notes on a Nervous Planet
Have you ever gotten into an argument online that left you in a red-hot rage? Do you repeatedly pick up your phone to check your...
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- 14 min
The Happiest Man on Earth
The atrocities of the Holocaust can seem very far away. Most of the people who lived through that time have since died and what happened...
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- 12 min
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
There’s a cliché as old as antiquity that says that wisdom and practicality are incompatible. As an ancient Greek joke has it, a...
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- 12 min
The Republic
What makes a person just? And how can we define a just city? Answers to these types of questions are what Socrates of Athens seeks to...
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- 5 min
Common Sense
Imagine you lived in British Colonial America. Back then, you could be taxed and wouldn't be able to do anything about it. The...
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- 15 min
The Prince
Have you ever wondered how some autocratic world leaders manage to stay in power despite human rights abuses and violations of...
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- 13 min
The Audacity of Hope
All Americans share a fundamental set of values reflecting the founding fathers’ intent. The founding fathers had the foresight to write...
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- 19 min
Napoleon the Great
The notion that history is made and its outcomes influenced only by “great men” is rightly considered old fashioned these days. However,...
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- 19 min
Becoming
Michelle Obama wasn’t always a lawyer, a working mom or the First Lady of the United States. Back in the 1970s, she was Michelle...
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- 9 min
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods is a name synonymous with golf, extraordinary success, and marital infidelity. Ever since emerging on the scene as a golf...
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- 11 min
The House of Rothchild
What does the name Rothschild mean to you? While many people associate the name with a wealthy Jewish family or a thriving investment...
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- 9 min
Shoe Dog
You certainly know the successful tagline of footwear giant Nike; Just Do It. It captures the daring spirit of Nike co-founder Phil...
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- 16 min
Steve Jobs
It’s almost impossible to overstate the role that Steve Jobs played in the creation of our contemporary, computer-mediated world. A...
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- 12 min
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton is perhaps the most famous scientist of all time. But fame attracts myth – and much of Newton’s life is somewhat obscured by...
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- 9 min
Total Recall
The world has changed a lot from the days when most people started and ended their careers at the same company. Flexibility and...
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