Monthly Archives: September, 2015
Politics in the Ancient World (M.I. Finley)
“Politics In The Ancient World” is a short work, a compilation and modification of a series of lectures given in 1980 by the Communist...
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left (Yuval Levin)
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: A New History of the Great Depression (Amity Shlaes)
“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...
The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West (Toby Huff)
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...
Curry: A Global History (Colleen Taylor Sen)
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...