Library of Borges

The feature image – used on the Resources page – doesn’t begin to capture the size of the library Borges imagined in his short story The Library of Babel, a library with unimaginable mathematics. What would the card catalog system for such a physical library be like? The Central Social Institute of Prague (1937) offersContinue reading “Library of Borges”

THE WILL TO WIN

In The Importance of Winning, I outlined the necessity of prevailing in combat. The will to win is often distilled to morale. Morale: the courage of the individual infectiously emboldening the spirit of his fellow comrades in arms. For not by numbers of men nor by measure of body, but by valour of soul, isContinue reading “THE WILL TO WIN”