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The Utopia of Rules – David Graeber (2015)
The premise of this book is that we live a deeply bureaucratic society – if we do not notice it, it is largely because bureaucratic practices and requirements have become… Read more
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Wild – Jean-Marc Vallée (2014) ***
Troubled young woman walks a thousand miles through the American wilderness to find herself. That’s about it. Read more
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The migration dilemma
In times of great emotion taking some distance can generate new perspectives. For sure, in dealing with the huge immigration crisis in Europe rational analysis is of great help in… Read more
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Irrational Man – Woody Allen ***
Despite some overacting and a cliched character or two, an entertaining film with a surprising plot – quintessential Woody Allen. Read more
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Liberalism, The Life of an Idea – Edmund Fawcett (2014)
This is what one could call a tour de force: a biography of liberalism from 1830 until now. As far as I know, the first of its kind. And its… Read more
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The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann (1924)
The all-time classic that most people advise me to read, when advising an all-time classic. I like the style, the characters and the beautiful sentences, but it is a slow-read.… Read more
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Simple Rules – D. Sull and K. Eisenhardt (2015)
Simplification is not necessarily a form of stupidity – it can be a form of intelligence. Even of brilliance. Simple rules are, simply put, rules of thumb. And simple rules… Read more
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Messy Iraq will remain an issue in American elections
As this New Yorker article by Dexter Filkins (author of the great book The Forever War) argues, it should’t surprise anyone that no politician in charge in the last 10 years,… Read more
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Reis naar het continent – Mathieu Segers (2013)
This is a very well researched account of the creation of Europe, from World War II to the present day, with quite some technical details. Nevertheless, Segers never loses his… Read more
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