Corners

In almost all board games–chess, go (wei chi), backgammon, etc. –the corners spell defeat and death. In each game, the corners are configured differently,…

Machiavelli for Our Times

For the past twelve years, I have this ritual in which every December I reread some work of Machiavelli. This year it was the…

An Experiment in Counter-Stupidity

Originally I had proposed to do my third book on the history of human stupidity. It would basically be an offshoot of the transgression…

The Art of Interviewing

The future lies in new forms of communication. The old ways are dead and dying. People have short attention spans, are inundated with information….

The Dark Side

One day, while I was writing the Seduction book, the following image came to my mind: every person has a dark side, like the…

The Three Types

The theory or idea of a Centre begins with the observation of man’s chaotic reality, his confusion, his sorrows. These are attributed to his…

War Declarations

War is father of all, king of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free. — Heraclitus

I…

2008 and Beyond

In studying demographic and cultural trends in the United States for the past few years, I have come to the conclusion that there is…

Profile in the New Yorker

The article isn’t up on their website yet, so Tucker had it scanned in and it’s posted here.

Discussion and commentary here

Random Thoughts and Salvos

O’Reilly versus Letterman: As many of you might know, I did my time on the O’Reilly Factor back in 1998. I was on the…