It is necessary to consider another point in examining the character of these principalities: that is, whether a prince has such power that, in case of need, he can support himself with his own resources, or whether he has always need of the assistance of others. And to make this quite clear I say that I consider those who are able to support themselves by their own resources who can, either by abundance of men or money, raise a sufficient army to join battle... 

This essay discusses the question of the transforming creative self and the aesthetics of becoming in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan' and 'Dejection: An Ode', by reassessing certain strands of Romantic visionary criticism and Deconstruction, which are two major critical positions in the reading and interpreting of Romantic poetry. The poetics of becoming and the creative process place the self in Coleridge's aesthetic and spiritual idealism in what I... 

Umair Haque Wrote recently that the reason there aren't more Googles is that most startups get bought before they can change the world. Google, despite serious interest from Microsoft and Yahoo-what must have seemed like lucrative interest at the time-didn't sell out. Google might simply have been nothing but Yahoo's or MSN's search box. Why isn't it? Because Google had a deeply felt sense of purpose: a conviction to change the world for the better. This has... 

Although a prince may rise from a private station in two ways, neither of which can be entirely attributed to fortune or genius, yet it is manifest to me that I must not be silent on them, although one could be more copiously treated when I discuss republics. These methods are when, either by some wicked or nefarious ways, one ascends to the principality, or when by the favour of his fellow-citizens a private person becomes the prince of his country. And speaking... 

As Christians today, we have a tendency not to think about how it is that Christianity came to be our known and widely accepted religion. We’re born, baptized, and raised in the Christian faith while being surrounded by of our friends, family, and other acquaintances, the majority of whom are also Christian. We’re brought to church on the weekends, we say our creeds, drink the ‘blood,’ and eat the ‘flesh,’ all the while never questioning how it... 

About a month after we started Y Combinator we came up with the phrase that became our motto: Make something people want. We've learned a lot since then, but if I were choosing now that's still the one I'd pick. Another thing we tell founders is not to worry too much about the business model, at least at first. Not because making money is unimportant, but because it's so much easier than building something great. A couple weeks ago I realized that if you put... 

The work on man’s side in making grace ef cacious is so slight, so small, so nearly equivalent to passive acquiescence, as scarcely to seem able to be def ned as “performative” in the strict sense. Man’s acceptance of God’s grace would seem to be quite unlike a poetry seen as vigorously performative. Hop-kins’s f gure for the acceptance of grace is “saying yes,” which returns me to the question with which I began. Is “saying yes” a true...