Published inINCERTOA Few Things We Don’t Quite Get About the Levant(First Draft of the Foreword to Pierre Zalloua’s forthcoming book. For comments.)May 12, 202479May 12, 202479
Published inINCERTOBitcoin is the Detector of Imbeciles:On The Cluster of Charlatans, Zero Interest Rate Virgins, & Crypto TumorsJan 4, 202372Jan 4, 202372
Published inINCERTOHow I write(Preface to the 15th year Italian edition of The Black Swan)Oct 30, 202272Oct 30, 202272
Published inINCERTOOn ChristianityAn essay as a foreword for Tom Holland’s DominionAug 25, 202218Aug 25, 202218
Published inINCERTONo, Covid 19 is not an old person problemClearly Covid affects the old, disproportionately. But so do practically almost all other ailments. A simple fact of life, in a population…Nov 29, 20212Nov 29, 20212
Published inINCERTOSnowden, Phony hence Traitor?When you catch someone with a shoddy-but-carefully-curated story, Edward Snowden, producing the mother of bad faith arguments (in effect…Aug 9, 202112Aug 9, 202112
Published inINCERTOSafe HeavenForeword to Mark Spitznagel’s book Safe Haven [Amazon]May 6, 202126May 6, 202126
Published inINCERTOMaestro BogomolnyForeword for Cut the Knot: Probability Riddles by Alexander B.Nov 18, 20208Nov 18, 20208
Published inINCERTOReligion, Violence, Tolerance & Progress: Nothing to do with TheologyReligions create highly differentiated belief clusters and mentalities that have little to do with their theologies.Oct 21, 202050Oct 21, 202050
Lebanon: from Ponzi to AntifragilityAbout two years before the recent collapse, at a dinner, a then (slow thinking) member of the Lebanese parliament kept bugging me for an…Jul 10, 202014Jul 10, 202014
