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• Immanuel Kant - Bad for America
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• Google vs Facebook
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• The War as We Saw It
• Mark Lilla on University Education
• Mark Lilla on The Politics of God
• Milan Cathedral

Daily

Arts and Letters Daily
NPR
New York Times
The Economist


Blogs I Like

Venture Blog
Andrew Sullivan
Becker-Posner Blog
BrothersJudd
Freakonomics
Lifehack
Butterflies and Wheels
A Random Walk
Chicago Boyz
Intellectual Takeout
Brain Pickings


Monthly

Productivity

Life Hacker
43 Folders
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GTD


Online Entertainment

TED
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Academic Earth
Hulu


Travel

BootsnAll


Trend Spotting Blogs

Cool Hunting
Springwise
The Cool Hunter
Design Spotter
Fashion Week Daily
Stylebites
Top Fashion Blogs
Trendhunter


References

Wikipedia
Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Center for the Study of the Great Ideas
Mathworld
Platonic Realms
Wikihow
NBER


Essays/Articles I Like

George Orwell, England Your England
Karl Weintraub, The Value of Being an Heir
William James, The Moral Equivalent of War
Edward Oakes, The Achievement of Alasdair MacIntyre
Roger Scruton, Why I Became a Conservative
Leo Strauss, What Is Liberal Education?
Ornery American, The Marriage of True Minds
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
Michiel Visser, Public Education versus Liberty
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
Michael Ignatieff, Getting Iraq Wrong


Dead White Men I Like

Samuel Johnson
Edmund Burke
George Patton
C.S. Lewis
Karol Wojtyła
William F. Buckley, Jr.


Academics I Follow

Raghu Rajan
Ed Glaeser
Jonathan Lear
Hubert Dreyfus
Robert Shiller
Mark Lilla
Leon Kass
Harvey Mansfield
Brian Leiter
Richard Posner
Charles Taylor


Podcasts I Like

The Moth
This American Life
RadioLab
New Yorker Audio Edition
CFR Podcasts
Economist Audio Edition
CSIS Podcasts
UC Berkeley
Yale


Journalists I Follow

David Brooks
James Fallows
John Micklethwait



Places I Like

Solsbury Hill
Tintern Abbey
Capri

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