CONTENTS

PART 1 (2001-2002)

1 . Essays? After Montaigne?

2. On the chronophages or time-eaters

3. On free hay trade

4. On new overcoats

5. On Medieval America

6. On the Yahoos, or Apologia
of Samuel Butler

7. On the Smell of Money

8. On the Buridan's Ass

9. On Work

10. On Clouds and Elephants

11.On the Rocks

12. On Engines and Games

13. On Numbers

14. On Taking Temperature with a Clock

15. On menage a trois in the Stone Age

16. On Somebody Else

17. On Complexity

18. On Everything

19. On Reading Across the Lines

20. On Artificial Art

21. On Ethics

22. On Errors

23. On the Architecture of Change

24. On Myself

25. On Zippers

26. Terrorism: The Other Side of the Hill

27. The Existential Sisyphus

28. On Simple Reasons

compact version: Simple Reasons

29. On Goil and Evod

30. Tinkering with Justice

31. On Poverty

32. The Split

33. The Corg

34. On Loss

35. Crowds and Elites, Bottlenecks and Demons

36. On Fatalism

37. On the Soul

38. On Football

39. Painting the Ice Cream Soup

40. Through the Dragonfly Eye

PART 2 (2006-2008)

41. The Morning-after Questions

42. Credentials and Credo

43. The Cold Civil War in America

44. Remembering Russia: 1940-1987

45. The Place of Philosophy in Science

46. Postmodernity: Postmortem for Modernity

47. The War

48. Motives and Opportunities

49. Terrorism and its Theorism

50. The Mysterious Island

51. Potato as Food for Thought

52. A Supper with Birds and Planes

53. Power: Hidden Stick, Shared Carrot

54. Growth and Anti-growth

55. The Chemistry of Money

56. From One, Many

Some last Essays are continued at Introduction into Pattern Chemistry (2009-2011)

New: Complete ESSAYS А LA MONTAIGNE, 1 to 56 , revised in June, 2009