Solitude and Leadership was delivered by William Deresiewicz to the plebe class at West Point in October 2009.
Solitude and Leadership - The American Scholar
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
Autonomy and Clarity in Leadership Styles
There’s no one right style of leadership. Use the right style of at the right time.
In pursuit of Cognitive Solidarity
Guest post by Pip Sanderson, National Institute of Teaching (England)
The loneliest generation: What it is like to grow up in England today | IPPR
A connected society is one in which we care about how others are doing and, in turn, others look out for our wellbeing. It is the state and public services
On liberty
Introductory -- Of the liberty of thought and discussion -- Of individuality, as one of the elements of well-being -- Of the limits to the authority of society over the individual -- Applications; Book, leather; Explanatory note by H.E. Barker attached; 18
Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy
What is Communalism?
Murray Bookchin What is Communalism? The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism
Here Comes Everybody (book)
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is a book by Clay Shirky published by Penguin Press in 2008 on the effect of the Internet on modern group dynamics and organization. The author considers examples such as Wikipedia, MySpace, and other social media in his analysis. According to Shirky, the book is about "what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organizational structures". The title of the work alludes to HCE, a recurring and central figure in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and considers the impacts of self-organizing movements on culture, politics, and business.
How being alone may be the key to rest
The results of the world’s largest survey on rest suggest that to feel truly rested, we need to get away from other people.
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, …
James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a s…
For Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is rooted in loneliness | Aeon Essays
Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism
Obeying Nobody: Public Service and the Ordinary Evil of Administration - Roy L. Heidelberg, 2026
This essay explores administrative evil by reconsidering it through Weber’s ideal-type of bureaucracy and Arendt’s concerns over the bureaucratization of social...
There Never Was a West
David Graeber There Never Was a West Or, Democracy Emerges From the Spaces In Between 2007 From the collection “Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy,...