Peril: Book Review
Peril (2021), Woodward and Costa; Woodward seems to know everyone in Washington and get them on the record. This story tells the end of...
Noise: Book Review
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (2021), Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein. Several books on decision making and...
Age of Discord: Book Review
Age of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History (2016), Peter Turchin; an interesting time series macro analysis of...
Democrats and Republicans: A New MVG Look
A new Pew Poll (see New York Times June 29, 2021) broke out survey responses relative to which party they align with. Some of the...
The Plague Year: Book Review
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid (2021), Lawrence Wright. Granted, there will be dozens of books written about the pandemic,...
Deaths of Desire: Book Review
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (2020), Anne Case and Angus Deaton. A “downer” book stressing specific American problems...
The Premonition: Book Review
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (2021), Michael Lewis; another key book from a unique perspective by a fantastic writer. The book tells...
The Bomber Mafia: Book Review
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, A Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (2021), Malcolm Gladwell. I read every book that...
Is Biden Too Progressive for MVG?
Biden was considered a moderate when he ran for president; also an old guy with lots of experience. By a 100 days in office a couple of...
The Code Breaker: Book Review
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and The Future of the Human Race (2021), Walter Isaacson. This was a great book,...
Land: Book Review
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World (2021), Simon Winchester. A series of diverse essays that have something to do...
Resource and Civilization Sustainability
The pandemic and political upheavals demonstrate how brittle our culture and economy are. This is not unusual in the history of humans....
Think Again: Book Review
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know (2021), Adam Grant. This is another useful book from psychology; this time about...
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future: Book Review
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (2021), Elizabeth Kolbert, the author of The Sixth Extinction writing about human’s attempt...
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: Book Review
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal (2021), Mark Bittman, a unique food history focusing on the shift...