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...
Thank Your For The Servitude: Book Review
Thank You for the Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission (2022), Mark Leibovich. The last Leibovich book I read...
The Power of Crisis: Book Review
The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats—and Our Response—Will Change The World (2022), Ian Bremmer. Bremmer talks about five or so crisis...
Why Not Socialized Toilets?
On a school trip to Europe with my granddaughter, we discovered an unexpected inconvenience. It was difficult to find a place to pee....
A Splendid Exchange: Book Review
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World (2008), William Bernstein. My main interest was how trade affected the start (and...
Making History: Book Review
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past (2022), Richard Cohen. Cohen was publishing director for two London publishers,...