The Delusions of Crowds: Book Review
The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups, William J. Bernstein (2021). Lot of examples. I’m interested in the psychological...
The World That Trade Created: Book Review
The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present, Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik (2013)....
The Birth of Plenty: Book Review
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created (2004), William Bernstein. Interesting analysis of what can be...
Knowing What We Know: Book Review
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic, Simon Winchester (2023). A broad brush about...
Silent Spring Revolution: Book Review
Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening (2022),...
Philosophy: Book Review
Philosophy: Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject (Peter Gibson). Organized by topic rather than period of specific...
A History of the World in 6 Glasses: Book Review
A History of the World in 6 Glasses, Tom Standage (2005), specifically on beer, wine, rum (plus whiskey and other similar alcohol),...
Walden: Book Review
Thoreau, Walden or Life in the Woods (1854, 2019 edition). I have a mountain of books to read, so I reread Walden. Granted, it’s a...
How Propaganda Works: Book Review
How Propaganda Works (2015), Jason Stanley. This seems a timely topic, to be told by a philosopher with experience. It is academic,...
Prevarication Versus Lying
Mike Pence just published his autobiography So Help Me God and been on every talk show around. He proved to be the master of...
Masters of the Word: Book Review
Masters of the World: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet (2013), William Bernstein. Bernstein identified four...
Starry Messenger: Book Review
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspective on Civilization (2022), Neil DeGrasse Tyson. [I read this to get as far away from politics as I...
Profiles in Ignorance: Book Review
Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber (2022), Andy Borowitz. After a couple of frustrating reads on...
How Fascism Works: Book Review
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018), Jason Stanley. This book was a warning about fascism: “essentially the danger of...
The Destructionists: Book Review
The Destructionists: The 25-Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party (2022), Dana Milbank. Milbank is a long-time columnist for the...