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Primo Levi and the Periodic Truth
Primo Levi and the Periodic Truth
He survived Auschwitz, distilled its horrors with the precision of a chemist, wrote prose as clear as distilled water, translated Kafka, and still found time to question the very nature... Read more...
John Searle: Thinking Outside the Room
John Searle: Thinking Outside the Room
He still stands like bedrock against the rising tide of artificial intelligence—gruff, lucid, and unmoved by the claim that a mind can be coded. In 1980, a Chinese philosophy student... Read more...
The Laws Jews Gave the World Now Put Israel on Trial
The Laws Jews Gave the World Now Put Israel on Trial
History has a cruel sense of irony. Eighty years ago, two Jewish lawyers from the same city, Lviv in Ukraine, gave the world the words we now use to talk... Read more...
The Labyrinth Maker: Jorge Luis Borges and the Literature of Infinity
The Labyrinth Maker: Jorge Luis Borges and the Literature of Infinity
He feared mirrors, distrusted democracy, and once described paradise as a kind of library. In his mind, reality was a fiction, and fiction, a form of metaphysics. Jorge Luis Borges... Read more...
Casa Carlini Announces Upcoming Release of Fearful in Gaza, a Memoir by Abdalhadi Alijla
Casa Carlini Announces Upcoming Release of Fearful in Gaza, a Memoir by Abdalhadi Alijla
New York, NY — August 23, 2025 — Casa Carlini is proud to announce the forthcoming release of Fearful in Gaza by Palestinian-Swedish political scientist and author Abdalhadi Alijla. Now... Read more...
The Meaning in the Margins: Clifford Geertz and the Anthropology of Ambiguity
The Meaning in the Margins: Clifford Geertz and the Anthropology of Ambiguity
He believed that human lives are suspended in “webs of meaning” and that the task of anthropology is to trace those webs with elegance and empathy. Clifford Geertz approached anthropology... Read more...
The Slow Erosion of Reading and What It Means for Us
The Slow Erosion of Reading and What It Means for Us
Think back to the last time you lost yourself in a book. Not a skim, not a quick glance at a page before sleep, but the kind of deep immersion... Read more...
The Ghost Evicted: Gilbert Ryle and the Unmasking of the Mind
The Ghost Evicted: Gilbert Ryle and the Unmasking of the Mind
He dismantled a centuries-old illusion with a single phrase, exposing the mind not as a hidden realm but as a public performance. Gilbert Ryle was a philosopher who could deflate... Read more...
Deledda’s Dominion: The Woman Who Ruled Italian Literature
Deledda’s Dominion: The Woman Who Ruled Italian Literature
She was the novelist who illuminated the shadows of Sardinia—stoic, introspective, fiercely private, yet spinning tales that burned with the raw fire of human desire and despair. Grazia Deledda, the... Read more...
I Built a Career in Music. Here’s Why the Industry No Longer Works.
I Built a Career in Music. Here’s Why the Industry No Longer Works.
I recently stumbled across a clip of Mark Cuban on TikTok, and what he said has been echoing in my mind ever since. He was asked about the worst industries... Read more...
The Drunkard’s Muse: Charles Bukowski and the Art of Unfiltered Truth
The Drunkard’s Muse: Charles Bukowski and the Art of Unfiltered Truth
He hunched over his typewriter, wine bottle at hand, cigarette burning, a bard of the barstool who romanticized ruin. Charles Bukowski was a poet of the gutter, a laureate of... Read more...
The Shield That Lets Netanyahu Wage War Without Consequence
The Shield That Lets Netanyahu Wage War Without Consequence
On April 16, 2025, Fatima Hassouna, a 26-year-old Palestinian photojournalist, was killed with ten family members, among them her pregnant sister, when an Israeli airstrike targeted their home in Gaza... Read more...