Never read a book if you don't expect to be surprised by something in it, while reading it. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In a thick and captivating book, La rebellion franaise, the historian Jean Nicolas shows how the culture of rioting was extremely sophisticated historically, it counts as the true French national sport.

Religions are not quite religions: some are philosophies, others are just legal systems.

The IYI subscribes to The New Yorker, a journal designed so philistines can learn to fake a conversation about evolution, neurosomething, cognitive biases, and quantum mechanics.