Is Emil Cioran an author to be feared? [Continue]

Wander too far down the path of rationalist dogma and it’ll be no surprise if you end up like Richard Dawkins, sunning his genitals in a world that no longer makes any sense. [Continue]

Four books attempt to describe the Detroit of past and present: two good, one bad, one of such inconsequence its inclusion here is only justified as an act of collation. [Continue]

Ash Amin’s new book Land of Strangers is “for an idea – that the stranger is neither friend not foe, but constitutive” of the health of societies. [Continue]

Alain de Botton doesn’t think much about his own thinking, nor does the book encourage the reader to. [Continue]

Our uncertainty about any ending is all the more reason why we should look at the recent past with holstered hubris, not revolutionary fervor. [Continue]

These are the basic principles of organizing: you have to have a goal that’s winnable, do-able and reasonable, and you have to have a way of winning it. You can’t repeat strategies that don’t work. [Continue]

In a digital age of digital warfare fought (on one side, at least) on computer screens, a reaction on computer screens is only natural. [Continue]

Casting policy in a military light is certainly not a new practice, of course, but today's skirmishes are a far cry from the legislative crusades of the last century. [Continue]

As tragically optimistic as Hedges seems to be about the direction of the Occupy movement, it’s disheartening that he doesn’t seem to have as much faith in his previous arguments or in his audience’s ability to absorb them. [Continue]