by Aseem Gupta | Nov 26, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King begins almost like a comic tale about two irresponsible British drifters and expands into something far stranger: a story about two men who cross the frontier of British India, conquer part of an isolated mountain country,...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 16, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Murray N. Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State is short enough to read in an afternoon and ambitious enough to challenge the basic categories through which many people think about government. Its central question is not whether a particular government is democratic,...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 6, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Louise Glück’s Marigold and Rose begins with an impossible idea and treats it as completely natural: two infant twin sisters who cannot yet read or properly speak possess elaborate inner lives, and one of them is already trying to write a book. Marigold is reflective,...
