A collection of essays.

- In Praise of Idleness
- "Useless" Knowledge
- Architecture and Social Questions
- The Modern Midas
- The Ancestry of Fascism
- Scylla and Charybdis, or Communism and Fascism
- The Case for Socialism
- Western Civilization
- On Youthful Cynicism
- Modern Homogeneity
- Man versus Insects
- Education and Discipline
- Stoicism and Mental Health
- On Comets
- What is the Soul?