Aristotle famously said ‘Man is by nature a political animal.’ This can also be translated as ‘Man is an animal, the nature of which is to live in a city’. The point is that human beings are animals, as much as we like to forget it. At least, that is what I believe. I don’t [...]
I cannot remember having to reassess a book as often, and as radically as Walden. I started thinking that it was a long harangue against the world. Then I thought it was a book about the beauty of nature, which is what I had expected. And then it revealed itself, in the very last few [...]