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2 months ago | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Oxford Press |Ed West |Joel Miller |Jeremy Anderberg
For those of you who prefer to read off paper rather than the screen, we have converted the post into an easily printable pdf file. The Flavors Of Faux History: Preparing for the Collapse of Knowledge1.62MB ∙ PDF fileA great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. Will and Ariel DurantWhen I (Peco) was eleven, a friend of mine showed me a staff he’d carved from a piece of wood with a whittling knife.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
newsletter.rationalwalk.com | Aswath Damodaran |Joel Miller |Rob Henderson |Chris Arnade
“For the most part, false and harmful opinions are distributed and supported by influence. We are too likely to accept the views and thoughts of other people without trying to investigate them deeper and further ourselves. Unimportant people are those who accept other people’s thoughts without developing them themselves.”— Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of WisdomA Dangerous Interregnum, November 18, 2024.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
millersbookreview.com | Joel Miller
I spent half a recent Saturday organizing my library. I’ve always had an unwieldy number of books, more volumes than space. It requires a fair amount of shuffling, reordering, and culling to get them shelved in a way useful to me and tolerable to my wife. It’s pure joy. Sorting through my library is therapeutic. There are few things more enjoyable and restorative than a casual browse of books you love.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
millersbookreview.com | Joel Miller
Cynthia L. Haven, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, is a literary ambassador and cultural interpreter known for amplifying the work of émigré voices such as philosopher René Girard and poets Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky, both Nobel laureates.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
newsletter.rationalwalk.com | Daniel Silva |Aswath Damodaran |Joel Miller
Every time I read the Book of Proverbs, I am struck by the worldly wisdom it contains. The primary audience of the book appears to be young men getting started in life, but anyone can benefit from common sense advice.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams |Joel Miller
Once upon a time, many years ago, my now-husband sent me a four-page letter, single spaced. Its purpose? To ask me to go out on a first date with him. Since he is now my husband, you would be correct to deduce that the letter—epic in more ways than one—was successful. There are many reasons to write. Every season of life grants its own genres of composition to writers who may find themselves more or less enthusiastic recipients of these assignments. School papers for the young.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
millersbookreview.com | Joel Miller
The first tip I ever received about semicolons? Avoid all use. My friendly adviser had read novelist Kurt Vonnegut’s dictum: “Do not use semicolons. . . . All they do is show you’ve been to college.” As a professional editor, I’ve heard other editors say as much. I’ve also heard plenty of writers ask me if it’s okay to use them: “I’ve heard you’re not supposed to.” Cormac McCarthy certainly disapproved.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
newsletter.rationalwalk.com | Aswath Damodaran |Ted Gioia |Joel Miller |Rudy Havenstein
“It’s no disgrace for a man, even a wise man, to learn many things and not to be too rigid. You’ve seen trees by a raging winter torrent, how many sway with the flood and salvage every twig, but not the stubborn — they’re ripped out, roots and all. Bend or break. The same when a man is sailing: haul your sheets too taut, never given an inch, you’ll capsize, and go the rest of the voyage keel up and the rowing-benches under.”— SophoclesTrillion Dollar Berkshire by , September 3, 2024.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
millersbookreview.com | Joel Miller |Richard Hanania |Henry Oliver
For its Self-Indulgence issue in December 1973, National Lampoon dreamt up a spoof publication called Me Magazine, billed as “The ultimate special interest magazine.” Addressed to Mr. Walter J. Arnholt, the cover featured the same Mr. Arnholt, led with an editorial by Mr. Arnholt, contained letters to the editor by Mr. Arnholt, and then ran through the litany of regular magazine departments—including horoscope—all by, for, about, and featuring Mr. Arnholt.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
millersbookreview.com | Joel Miller
I knew once I read and reviewed Andrew D. Kaufman’s biography of Dostoevsky’s wife, Anna Dostoevskaya, I wanted to talk with him. The urge only amplified as I discovered more about Kaufman and his work.
