Here it is, your weekly rundown of interesting articles I’ve come across recently, to consider for your weekend readings:
Why [some] intellectuals support dictators. (New York Times)
The Epictetus Club: part one. Stoicism in prison. (Modern Stoicism)
The flatterer and the chatterer: on Theophrastus’ enduring classification of human characters. (Paris Review)
What is the future of the UN in the age of impunity? As the laws of war become optional and crimes in Syria and Libya go unpunished, there are fears the body has no teeth. [Darn good question.] (The Guardian)
Too much Mars? Let’s discuss other worlds. Two veteran space journalists discuss why so much attention and budget seems to be directed to the red planet. [There are a number of solid scientific reasons to get over our obsession with Mars and look elsewhere.] (New York Times)
Philosophy as a Way of Life
Anne Applebaum is too much a part of Never Trumper Republican part the bipartisan foreign policy establishment. Book’s in part a thinly veiled attack on Trump. Pass.
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