Jash Dholani
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The most canceled woman in the world: Camille Paglia In Sexual Personae, she attacks liberalism, feminism, and Nature-worship like no other writer before or since On her 76th bir...
Ernst Jünger survived multiple headshots in WW-I Led his unit to impossible victories Read Nietzsche in his spare time Wrote notes that became the war classic Storm of Steel On...
C.S. Lewis almost died in the trench warfare of WW-I Became best friends with Tolkien Sold 100 million books On the cusp of WW-II, he gave an iconic lecture at Oxford University...
Humans fight a holy war against thinking machines in Dune This war is called the "Butlerian Jihad" Why? The war is named after a real 19th century English author: Samuel Butle...
H.L. Mencken Thread 🧵 Nickname: The “American Nietzsche” Words published: 10 million+ Mencken hated modernity and issued prophetic warnings against capitalism Discover Mencke...
Call him a simp Call him crazy But no one can deny the fact that Nietzsche was a straight-up visionary 11 provocative ideas from Nietzsche that will help you understand the mode...
My favorite Chesterton idea is that you don't need the middle path but a marriage of extremes. You need to be intensely invested yet totally relaxed at the same time. Hate the worl...
Thomas Carlyle attacked democracy, slammed rationalism, and became his century’s most famous writer Chesterton called him a seer Emerson: “He never wrote a dull line” Dig into C...
Thomas More was the most powerful lawyer in Britain, the King's personal advisor, Shakespeare's inspiration, and the writer of the world's first Utopian novel in 1516 EXECUTED as...
The Man With 30,000 Books Rejected political power Built a MASSIVE library Meet: Dávila ONLY published 100 copies of his book 10 profound ideas from Dávila you must know: 1/...
Very few people in history wrote 1000+ page books, sold 10 million+ copies, were loved as much as hated, and became more influential after dying Ayn Rand is one of them On Rand's...
Number of books sold by C.S. Lewis = 200,000,000+ $$$ earned by his Narnia adaptations = $1.5 billion+ No one else combined philosophy and adventure stories like him What were H...