Kočky a knihy
Mám rád kočky a mám rád knihy. Podle toho to u mě doma vypadá: koček mám šest, knih několik set. Obojího bych chtěl ještě víc.
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Why the West Rules?
Why the West Rules—For Now by Ian Morris Please consult the graph above, it should be clear now from Moriss own Composite Social Development Index . Or read on. Ian Morris’s Why the West Rules—For Now presents an ambitious synthesis of world history through a comparative civilizational lens. At its core lies the “social development index,”…
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Book reviews – April 2025
I don’t have much to say about April, except that the biggest flop was Death’s End (the final book in the trilogy starting with The Three-Body Problem), and the biggest banger was, completely unexpectedly, the essay collection on the border between music writing and reflections on life, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us.…
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Knihy – duben 2025
Nemám co víc říct o dubnu, než že největší propadák byl Death’s End (poslední díl trilogie začínající „Problémem tří těles”) a největší banger byl absolutně nečekaně sborník esejů na pomezí psaní o hudbě a o životě „They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us”. Což je jedna z vět, které si nikde jinde než tady nepřečtete – zdravím oba své fanoušky.…
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Original Sin – Hubris/ Age
The book presents a story that is more than obvious in hindsight: that President Biden’s cognitive and physical decline was both visible and consequential, yet shielded from public reckoning by an inner circle more concerned with maintaining power than serving the public interest. While the reliance on anonymous sources makes definitive judgment difficult, the narrative aligns…
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When Natasha Dances
Orlando Figes’s Natasha’s Dance is an ambitious, sweeping exploration of Russian cultural identity from the 18th century to the late Soviet period. Rather than presenting a traditional chronological history, Figes constructs a cultural palimpsest—layering music, literature, visual arts, religious thought, and ideology to capture the elusive, shifting essence of “Russianness.” The central metaphor, taken from a scene in…
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Chokepoints
Chokepoints by Edward Fishman delivers a sharp and sober analysis of economic coercion as a strategic tool of U.S. foreign policy. Drawing on a wealth of sources and his experience in the U.S. State Department, Fishman chronicles the evolution of sanctions against Iran, Huawei, and Russia. Rather than presenting a dramatized geopolitical thriller, he offers a disciplined, evidence-driven look into…
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Book reviews – March 2025
Certainly one of the months with no specific highlights. Book of the month: Careless People;Flop of the month: Slavic Mythology Collection, the sheer laziness of the edit is killing me. Slavic Mythology Collection (annotated): Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen along with Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources Alexander Chodzko, Emily J. Harding…
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Knihy – březen 2025
Rozhodně jeden z těch měsíců bez zásadních highlightů. Kniha měsíce: Careless People;Zklamání měsíce: Slavic Mythology Collection – ta naprostá editorská a redakční lenost mě zabíjí. Slavic Mythology Collection (annotated): Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen along with Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources Alexander Chodzko, Emily J. Harding (Translator), A.H. Wratislaw (Poslouchali jsme před spaním…
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Book Review Special: Careless People
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams Facebook isn’t always doing great. Its digital currency failed, its virtual worlds aren’t working, it’s a tool for political campaigning, and much of its content is now AI slop and crude scams.Many have already charted how the world’s first truly global social network became today’s behemoth and how Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitions evolved.…