Richard's Pretension

Adam Kucharski began writing The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread – and Why They Stop before the Covid-19 outbreak in the West but was...

It often happens that whatever video I choose to watch shares some thematic similarities with whatever book lies at that moment on my bedtab...

The covid lockdown varies in intensity from one state to another in the US, but New Jersey’s regimen has been and remains among the most res...

Once upon a time I was wont to browse the shelves of physical book stores because… well… it was the most effective way to browse. To be sure...

This covidly inspired summer of solitude has much left time for recreational reading. Among the books that spent time on my bedstand was the...

I don’t typically get sentimental about cars and trucks. OK, that’s not entirely true. I do associate memories of my past vehicles with me...

The reputation of Thomas Robert Malthus, author of An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), had a rough couple of centuries after ...