The Reading Room

The OLL blog explores the fascinating, vital, and often surprising texts and people that fill our library. Come talk in our library!

For Each and For All: Martineau’s Moral and Economic Defense of Free Markets

Was Henry Hazlitt right in his defense of capitalism as "the system of freedom, of justice, of productivity," a system in which people are "free to choose. . . free to get and to keep the fruits of their labor" because they…

Mrs. Dalloway: Only Authors Get to Understand People

Can you ever know another person? There is an optimistic dogma that even though we struggle to understand each other, it is possible, with effort, to bridge the gap.

7 Reasons Why AI Isn’t As Game-changing As You Fear

Artificial intelligence is changing some things and challenging our ideas about others.