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More than half a century after Tolstoy’s little-known correspondence with Gandhi on violence, human nature, and why we hurt each […]
Simone Weil on True Genius and the Crushing Illusion of Inferiority – The Marginalian
“Many of the tenets of sainthood are also to be cultivated in the committed writer,” Melissa Pritchard observed in her
Voltaire’s Trailblazing Sci-Fi Philosophical Homage to Newton and the Human Condition, in a Rare Vintage Children’s Book – The Marginalian
When the great French Enlightenment philosopher and satirist Voltaire (November 21, 1694–May 30, 1778) was traveling in England as a
Jared Diamond on the Root of Inequality and How the Mixed Blessings of “Civilization” Warped Our Relationship to Daily Risk – The Marginalian
By bridging the fields of anthropology, evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, geopolitics, and social science, trailblazing scientist Jared Diamond (b. September
The Illustrated Story of Billie Holiday and the Dog Who Loved Her – The Marginalian
One of the most trailblazing and influential vocalists of all time, Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915–July 17, 1959) — better
Simone Weil on the Purest and Most Fertile Form of Thought – The Marginalian
Simone Weil (February 3, 1909–August 24, 1943) is both among the twentieth century’s most magnificent minds and its greatest cultural
Adam Gopnik on Darwin’s Brilliant Strategy for Preempting Criticism and the True Mark of Genius – The Marginalian
“People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into
How One of the Last True Polymaths Pioneered the Cosmos of Connections – The Marginalian
No thinker has shaped our understanding of the astounding interconnectedness of the universe more profoundly than the great Prussian naturalist,
The Best Science Books of 2015 – The Marginalian
“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time,” E.B. White observed in a wonderful 1969 interview. “You