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...