Here is a list of all the Quotes & Commentary essays I’ve written, listed in reverse-chronological order (I’ve added descriptive titles for ease of navigation):
- #81: Pirsig (Why Study the Humanities?)
- #80: Shopenhauer (On the Market and Fame)
- #79: Tolkein (On the Death Penalty)
- #78: Basho (Nature and Homecoming)
- #77: Camus (Further on the Illusion of Control)
- #76: Thucydides (On Extreme Solutions)
- #75: Franklin (On Fear and Foolhardiness)
- #74: Kahneman (On the Illusion of Control)
- #73: Keynes (On Math and Morals)
- #72: Mill (On Utilitarianism)
- #71: Kahneman (Experts, Prediction, Plague)
- #70: Graeber (Useful & Useless Jobs)
- #69: Keynes (Economic Stimulus)
- #68: Bryson (Preparedness & Plague)
- #67: Thucydides (Politics & Plague)
- #66: Boccaccio (Creativity, Humor, & Plague)
- #65: Proust (Cynical vs Romantic Love)
- #64: Goethe (The Meaning of Love)
- #63: Voltaire (Against Superstition)
- #62: Santayana (Religion, Politics, Passion)
- #61: Santayana (Art & Patronage)
- #60: Santayana (Human Knowledge)
- #59: Santayana (Love of Fame)
- #58: Santayana (Religion & Poetry)
- #57: Santayana (History & Memory)
- #56: Santayana (Isolation of Mind)
- #55: Nietzsche (Religious Unease)
- #54: Goethe (The Quest for Knowledge)
- #53: Goethe (Globalism & Cuisine)
- #52: Burns (Taking Responsibility)
- #51: Montaigne (Self-Doubt)
- #50: Campbell (Evil is Universal)
- #49: Orwell (Moral Responsibility)
- #48: Orwell (Activism & Pacifism)
- #47: Russell (Trusting Emotions)
- #46: Wittgenstein (Public & Private)
- #45: Montaigne (The Pleasure of Communication)
- #44: Montaigne (Why I Write)
- #43: Hemingway (Distrusting Emotions)
- #42: Montaigne (Truth & Dilettantism)
- #41: Emerson (Political Art)
- #40: Emerson (Cities & Civilization)
- #39: Emerson (Subjective & Objective)
- #38: Emerson (Creation of Personal Identity)
- #37: Emerson (Structuring Time)
- #36: Emerson (Goodies)
- #35: Bacon (The Illogic of Revenge)
- #34: Dickens (Eyewitness Testimony of the Supernatural)
- #33: Mann (Politics is Demographic Conflict)
- #32: Flaubert (Language)
- #31: James (Mysticism)
- #30: Burns (Obligation & Desire)
- #29: Evans-Pritchard (Identity is Negative)
- #28: Nietzsche (God & Dancing)
- #27: Aesop (What is Worth Most is Valued Least)
- #26: Durant (The Wisdom of Laughter)
- #25: Homer (Autumn & Mortality)
- #24: Ovid (Short-term vs Long-term)
- #23: Campbell (Meaning Exists in Experience)
- #22: Brontë (Being Morally Consistent)
- #21: Dostoyevsky (Gratitude & Debt)
- #20: Locke (Nature vs Nurture)
- #19: King (Art & Theory)
- #18: Shakespeare (The Illogic of Labeling)
- #17: Spinoza (Free Will is Ignorance)
- #16: Lévi-Strauss (Pollution & Globalism)
- #15: Ecclesiastes (Human Nature & Progress)
- #14: Aristotle (The Illogic of Anger)
- #13: Gibbon (Nostalgia & Decadence)
- #12: Joyce (History is a Nightmare)
- #11: Tocqueville (Public Discourse in America)
- #10: Milton (Overcoming by Force)
- #9: Wells (No Equality of Opportunity)
- #8: Shakespeare (Relativity of Goodness)
- #7: Bryson (The Mystery of the Sea)
- #6: Aristotle (On Demagogues)
- #5: Wilde (Moral Expertise)
- #4: Dostoyevsky (Getting Used to Things)
- #3: Milton (Mind is Its Own Place)
- #2: Montaigne (Wisdom is Personal)
- #1: Montaigne (On Quoting Others)
Lotz in Translation 