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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Abundance – Yes, We Can for 2020s
Abundance, but for whom? I finished Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson with a slightly odd feeling: I liked it, I agreed with most of it, I even underlined a few passages — and I still don’t quite know who this book is actually for. Because if you’re already in the “progress is good, build things, let’s fix problems instead…
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Conspiracy Against Human Race
(cover of The Conspiracy Against The Human Race by Chris Mars) Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (2010) occupies a singular space at the intersection of literary horror and philosophical pessimism. Subtitled A Contrivance of Horror, the work draws heavily on the thought of Peter Wessel Zapffe, Arthur Schopenhauer, Philipp Mainländer, and Emil Cioran,…
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Knižní shrnutí – květen 2025
Květen byl ve znamení příprav Bitvy pod Horou, uvádění Requiemu a poměrně intenzivní práce, včetně bezpečnostní konference v Kyjevě.Protože jsem ale při tom dost cestoval, stihl jsem i nějaké ty knihy. Největší banger? Asi Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts. Cenu za umělecký dojem a kontroverzi si odnáší Natasha’s Dance. Taky jsem napsal víc delších reflexí než obvykle, což je…
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Book summary – May 2025
English May was all about preparing Bitva pod Horou, launching Requiem, and working pretty intensely, including a security conference in Kyiv.But since I was also travelling quite a bit, I still managed to get through some books. The biggest banger? Probably Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts. The award for artistic impression and controversy goes to Natasha’s Dance. Also,…
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Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
Sam Wineburg’s Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts is one of those rare books that attempt to reframe how we think about a whole discipline: and do not fall flat. Its central claim is simple: historical thinking is not natural. Instead, it’s a cultivated skill, requiring empathy, skepticism, cognitive humility, lots of context and specific skills. This premise alone…
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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…