Yearly Archives: 2015

“Miles Gone By” is a good, but somewhat disorienting, book. It’s disorienting, first, because it’s disjointed—while divided into chapters covering different topics, it’s actually...

Anne-Marie Slaughter’s book is compelling. But too frequently it relies on unsupported, and in fact unvoiced, assumptions. And like a stick figure with one...

“Dreamland” is about opiate addition, and about an America most of us don’t see. Those most affected by the explosion in opiate use chronicled...

This is just not a very good book. It’s not a dreadful book. Just not very good. True, it’s better than most modern apocalyptic...

“The Blueprint” is well written. But its predictions have now been repeatedly falsified, and it downplays critical elements in its analysis. Therefore, I cannot...

“Politics In The Ancient World” is a short work, a compilation and modification of a series of lectures given in 1980 by the Communist...

This is a clarifying book. In today’s Kardashian Kulture, even the well-informed, who know who Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke were, cannot generally give...

“The Forgotten Man” is both history and warning. It’s a great social/political history of the Depression. Rather than a recitation of economic facts, it...

This is a magisterial book, pulling together innumerable threads into a coherent, cohesive whole. It is actually a different book than I expected—it spends...

This short book is an interesting read, even if it’s really just a summary of the different impacts of Indian cooking spices around the...

This book is not a polemic or a book of apologetics; it is instead an exposition of what early Church theologians thought about important...

I think I’m well-positioned to review this book, because I grew up with Julia and David Scheeres. More precisely, we all went to Lafayette...