Churchill, Gone With the Wind, and ISIS: When Books Unexpectedly Talk To Each Other

“Why are we so good at accumulating information and power, but far less successful at acquiring wisdom?” —Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus

One of the things I try to do with almost every book I read is zoom out of the information on the page and dig a little deeper to figure out the bigger theme at play. I fight the impulse to merely accumulate information by re…