This book’s immensely readable. I started it in the evening and finished it by afternoon the next…
The thesis of this book is right. Spot on, in fact. Ridley incorporates Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things as a grounding aesthetic to discuss The Evolution of Everything — and that was a solid move. This book needed a bit of poetry. It was so (almost too) dense…
Q: Reading War and Peace, what did you learn about war ?
A: That it’s brutish and folly. That no one knows what they’re doing and everything’s a mess. That people get killed right in front of your face and life doesn’t stop for a…