by Aseem Gupta | Jan 31, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Manifesto for a European Renaissance is a remarkably compressed attempt to construct an entire political worldview. Written by Alain de Benoist and Charles Champetier in 1999 and later published in the selected English-language 2012 Arktos edition, the book moves...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 29, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Albert Camus’s The Fall begins with an act of courtesy. In an Amsterdam bar called Mexico City, a cultivated Frenchman notices that a stranger cannot communicate with the Dutch bartender and offers to interpret for him. The gesture seems trivial, even generous, but...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 27, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Albert Camus’s The Plague begins with dead rats and ends with a warning. Between those two points, an ordinary Mediterranean city is closed against an epidemic, thousands of lives are reorganized by quarantine, and a small group of people discovers that there may be...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 22, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Great creative work tends to acquire an aura once it is finished. Novels, symphonies, paintings, scientific theories, films, and buildings arrive before the public as completed achievements, making it easy to imagine that their creators operated in an equally elevated...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 17, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Cal Newport’s How to Become a Straight-A Student begins from an observation that many college students eventually discover for themselves: the number of hours spent studying is a poor measure of how much useful academic work actually gets done. A student can remain in...
