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September 18, 2015

A Dozen Things I've Learned from Charlie Munger About Risk, Part 2

Read the second half of a post by Tren Griffin, author of CHARLIE MUNGER: THE COMPLETE INVESTOR, on Charlie Munger’s take on the importance of understanding and being aware of risk in investing.

September 17, 2015

A Dozen Things I've Learned from Charlie Munger About Risk, Part 1

Read the first half of a post by Tren Griffin, author of CHARLIE MUNGER: THE COMPLETE INVESTOR, on Charlie Munger’s take on the importance of understanding and being aware of risk in investing.

September 16, 2015

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger About Making Rational Decisions, Part 2

Read the second half of a post by Tren Griffin, author of CHARLIE MUNGER: THE COMPLETE INVESTOR, on Munger’s views on rationality and decision-making in investing and beyond!

September 15, 2015

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger About Making Rational Decisions, Part 1

Read the first half of a post by Tren Griffin, author of CHARLIE MUNGER: THE COMPLETE INVESTOR, on Munger’s views on rationality and decision-making in investing and beyond!

September 3, 2015

Robert Boyers on the idea of the "Advanced Idea"

The following post is by Robert Boyers, author of The Fate of Ideas: Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals: The Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega Y Gasset wrote extensively about what he called “the height of the times.” Unhappy about the backwardness of his...

August 27, 2015

WITMonth 2015: Author/Translator/Author

In honor of August as Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth), we are featuring two very different posts by translators Howard Goldblatt and Esther Allen on women in translation. Goldblatt’s piece explains the meticulous translation and writing process he undertook to complete Chinese novelist Xiao Hong’s novel Ma Bo-le.

August 26, 2015

WITMonth 2015: Lost In Translation

In honor of August as Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth), we are featuring two very different posts by translators Howard Goldblatt and Esther Allen on women in translation. In Allen’s post, she profiles Eleanor Marx, daughter of Karl Marx and first translator of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary into English.

August 26, 2015

Is "Brontosaurus" Back? Not So Fast! — Donald Prothero

Donald Prothero, author of THE STORY OF LIFE IN 25 FOSSILS, takes a closer look at the recent findings regarding the brontosaurus.

August 21, 2015

Reactions to Laudato Si': The Great Gift of "Laudato Si'"

Read an article on Pope Francis’s recent Encyclical on climate change by economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, author of THE AGE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, that recently appeared in America Magazine.

August 20, 2015

Reactions to Laudato Si': Is Pope Francis Right on the Science?

Read an essay by scientist James Lawrence Powell, author of THE INQUISITION OF CLIMATE SCIENCE and FOUR REVOLUTIONS IN THE EARTH SCIENCES, on Pope Francis’s recent Encyclical on climate change.

August 19, 2015