Some time between 2006 and 2015 I read a book about contemporary U.S. politics. I was struck by the cogent description of the core values of Republicans (or perhaps conservatives in general) and how they differed from those of Democrats (or perhaps progressive politics in general), and I remember...

As bad as I know it sounds, Charles Bukowski is easily my favorite writer. His poetry is written so hopelessly but in a way that makes it seem like he genuinely doesn't matter to him. A huge question for me has always been whether or not he was a genuinely bad person or just a product of his envi...

I've seen somewhere an excellent quote, something along the lines of (very inexact wording): I wanted the robots to do my manual chores for me so I could create art and poetry; now the AIs are creating art and poetry and I'm still doing manual chores. I'm not the only one who remembers this quo...

Found this quote in "Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered" by Josef Hofmann, published in 1976: Goethe's great word expresses most tersely what I mean: Outwardly limited, Boundless to inward. I feel like something got lost in translating this quote to English, so I wonder what's the s...