Hardy-Littlewood

Encountering Toynbee

I’ve finally gotten around to following up my study of Spengler by reading though his companion heavyweight, Arnold Toynbee’s A Study of History. I will reiterate that I started this blog to investigate where and how civilization nurtures the life of the mind. Almost all serious inquiry on…

LLMs Build Information Antibodies

Your company’s corpus is factually inconsistent. This is a feature…

Goats in the Argan Tree

“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more…

A Timely Meditation: On The Uses of History

We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved…

Physiognomy and the Physiognomic

Hegel and Spengler Debate Skinheads

David Foster Wallace began a famously awkward interview by claiming that Wittgenstein believed humor is the only way we can address the deeper and darker problems of an era. I found…

Frontiers and the Far West

The Far West, Heidegger in South Africa, and the feeling of living at the…