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The Improvement Illusion and the Dying NYRB

Why waiting to write down your ideas will not make them better, and why the NYRB will be dead within 16 years.

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  Don't Be a Slave: Nietzsche on Philosophy and Slavery

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  We're Back: On how I fixed the company (a big lesson for independent schol…

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  we almost just died (and it was great, I think?)

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  The Rigor of Angels: Kant, Borges, & Heisenberg with William Egginton

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  Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano

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  Literary Outlaw: The Life of William S. Burroughs

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  John Kennedy Toole and A Confederacy of Dunces With Dan Baltic

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  AI for Writers: Striking a Balance Between Automation and Humanity

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  Ezra Pound: The Curse of Genius

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  Write for Yourself and Yourself Alone

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  Vanishing Virility: Understanding the Modern Testosterone Crisis

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  Dr. Samuel Johnson: Hustler, Savage, Grifter, Great

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  Plato Uncovered: Building Influence in the Ancient and Modern World

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  Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien with Paul Fortunato

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  YouTube Radicalization is a Myth with Mark Ledwich

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  Virtue and Excellence: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics with Colin Redemer